New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-28

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Professor Rotch, Of Boston. I'm giving analyses
Of human milk under various conditions. gives one
which he calls starvation" milk. follows:
Fat. 10. sugar. i: proteids. % Except for the
cane sugar, the average condensed milk mixture is
q starvation diet.
The advocates Of condensed milk will at once
ask. Why do babies thrive on it? They do not
They appear to thrive because the large amount
"a ~aItI ana SiIar they consume is rapidly con
babies gain in weight rapidly. But there is
pediatrist declared recently that he had never
seen condensed milk baby that did have
Tickets The apparent exception are children whose
until the mixture is thtckened sufficiently to meet
then wants. or else the mixture Is made stronger
from the beginning and their stomachs are strong
parent exception. the fact remains that the con
densed milk baby is. as a rule. an overfat. habby
eases or slight Intestinal fermentatioa' The
diarrhpal diseases in infants are not due alone
to the condensed milk other improper food. but
To the inability Of The Improperly fed child
come intestinal infection. At first sight might
supposed that a proper mixture could be prepared
There three objections TO such mixture. The
iArR. amount on cane sugar Is undoupeqy haritIuI
" TACT small amount OF cane sugar is irritating
20 many chiidrens stumaChs. The great objection.
caseine or curd If the proportion of fat which
very essential part of an infants food. is brought
caseine in the rondonsnd milk forms a tough in
diGestible curd very different from the curd Of
Why. then. is condensed milk so generally used
for infant feeding? There three important
reasons. In the first place, when condensed milk
was first put upon the market II was used quite
extensively an infant food. and many physicians
milk than TO- rd into tIi in regard to the prep
araton of suitable fresh milk mixture. The
the Of preparation. 4 of condensed milk
costs from nine 10 fifteen cents and lasts about
Gay IN ,b lansS WmGrT sf Moreover II is
ia a lp
water than to prepare and keep suitable fresh
be kept with Htle or no ice Is an added danger
to the infant. Although the milk does not sour.
it furnishes an excellent culture medlum toT
countless bacteria that are only partially destroyed
in the preparation of the food
What is suitable artificial 1000 Ior babies
Manifestly that is dgestble nourishing and
intelligence. Pediatrists almost unanimous IN
the belief that fresh milk must be the basis OF
LII a. ~ ii shGud he uncooked for even
Pasteurzation precpitates important constit-
calcium citrate These are important bonemaking
ingredients and their precipitation is probably one
of the causes OF ricketts,; In feedlng very young
weather this objection must be set aside. but the
fact should be borne in mini ana as soon ana as
Last June the Health Department issued card
for nrannTine infant food The directions which
follows, can certainly be carried OUT by any
From fresh quart bottle Of milk. carefully pour
off the amount of top milk directed IN the table
Place this with the sugar and barley water
boiled water, in a clean jar or agateware pail
four five inches Of water place this on the stove
and allow the water surrounding the milk to boil
for ten minutes; move from the stove and allow
stand for ten minutes; then place IN coid water
cool quickly. This Is the whole DAY $ milk
supply for the baby. Keep this covered IN the ice
box and fiji the bahy's bottles, which had previous
" been cleaned. as NEEDED"
Then follow Il list of depots where the Straus'
milk can be obtained and five tables giving the
proportions Of milk and barley water to o, be used at
to II that these cards generally distributed
and used. - song step in advance VIII nave been
The question! ~ good fresh milk supply so
easily met, more particularly on account OF cost:
For all who do not object to the standard price of
good milk there is plenty to be had from
reliable dealers But ii may be set down as axio-
matte that underprced milk is dangerous milk. no
ma ter how il looks tastes. Even from the side
of economy poor milk is lot cheap in the long run.
for the cost of a sick baby III doctor bHs and
I wo or three day saved on the milk. This
side of the question may have 70 DC solved eyentu-
ally by the city or private philant9ropy supplying
reliable milk the actual cost under certain con-
Finally the financial side of infant mortality is to
be considered In fact his is the only side that
nuIIic officials and political economists can logi-
caIlv consider A recent editorial brought up the
old question of the value of preventive medicine
: he aro,Ind Of the survival of the unfit Although
the argument can disproVed in regard to all i'm
prov ements in hygiene and san!iatoh II does not
ta!ity The health OF child during its first year
is absolutely criterion Of its adult life Aside
from the actual value of child me me ndirect cost
be remembered that this cost fails very largely
where 1t be least easily borne sickness is the
great factor in the destruction or seH-supportlng.
self -resnecting families among the poor, and the
financial loss can only be surmised
4 POPULAR DOCTRINE.
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