New-York tribune., 1908-12-29
LECTURES FOR MOTHERS
Instructive Course Beng GiUen at
Babies Hospital.

In tre old times the model wife and mother spent
Monday morning getting out the Wnsh- No"1'11s ,
she goes and hsars a lecture about how 10 tAke
care OF her baby At the Babies Hospital al aotn
60, snd Lexington avenue, Dr. Josephine Hem
er-vav the resident physician; Miss Mary A Smith
The suTer1ntendent. and Miss Judson the assis1ant
sunert1tenienf are alternating in giving Monoay
morning talks on the Of babies TO q group OF
r1others-the sort Of young mothers VINO are iioI
reached by the disPensary work A score OF theiih
armed with notebooks and pencils. listened WIN
earnest attention yesterday while Dr. AeInenVaS
Told about artificial feeding as a substitute 1or
mothers milk and bornbarded her with questions
sfterHsrd-
1T IS only by anslyzing your own FOOD thah you
csn understand how important II is TO get the rls1
clements and the right proportions in tne peoy
milk DR. fiernenway said The normal meal cI
the adult contains carbohydrates proteids and fats
Bread sugar. cereals. potatoes and other veeeDa-
rles furnish the carbohydrates, the prooelos you
get In meat milk and eggs and the fats OK course
n Fyutter cream oil and fat meats InconsolousiS
~. admit -roror4ions his meals in such way that
te gets the needed elements
Mature has adjusted the mothers milk TO the
tastyss needs, and nothing is perfect SUBSTITUTE
t77,+ s-rs- that the best food for young paby-s
,cy-,zl healthy bsby-is p mixture composed OF
twenty ounces OF cows milk-the top OF the DOT
flef-one scsnt ounce Of milk sugar, one ounce OF
line water sud seventeen ounces OF pam "stei
l7irf has been boiled from three 10 flVs MN
utes"
Dr. Hen1en7Vay shattered some Illusions IN regard
10 rasteurized and sterized milk
-.F7aste11rized milk may be full Of bacteria and
-, vCon't know it" she said a mother may
give II to her baby when it L bad quite in1ocetS
o- II doesn't get sour and advertise its badness
47sste71-4zaton and sterilization kill the bacteria IN
milk but they don't kill the little gerrninal centre
the spore-what corresponds 10 the egg IN is1es'
o-rsnisnls-and this spore may develop
F7oth sterilization and pasteurizaton cause mix
lose natural power Of resistance; after oehs
heated it takes up the bacteria with which II comes
IN contact But the worst thing spout mix WHICH
has been subjected TO heat is that there has been
sor,a chs,re-sornething We can't grasp-afectng
the proteids which makes baby FED on that MIX
more likely TO have diseases like the scurVy ana
1rs ricketts, 4 mother brought her baby here the
other dav and IL had pretty a case Of scurVy as
--o,,d xzisb fn see What had she fed it? Well,
te had been told that she must pasteurize its milk
and she had done 81; and the poor little BODY was
starved OF the clements il needed Now 1het
showed Ignorance on the doctors part. for how
ro7I1d Won expect mother with her first child 10
k1ov2'
Nevertheless Dr. Hemenway said, pasteurIEed
milk vaa necessity with the vast majority OF
New York people, at least during the summer
months .Ony the very few she said, can
afford TO pay the fancy prices charged By dairy
men for the certified mk-supposed 70 be as clean
as mix can be. In hot weather, when summer DIS
esse germs are rampant IL is better TO have sleF
fized or pasteurzed milk for baby. unless you can
IA absolutely sure OF having perfectly clean milk
In the winter if you can be reasonably sure Of
clean milk IL Is better not use milk which has
aeen subjected TO heat For the few summer
months however, the danger OF scurvy cannot be
great and with mothers who are careful TO use
fresh pzsteurized milk there IS not much danger
o. its being had"
This course Of lectures, which Is just beginning
and which is free 10 young mothers, Will cover
mary points besides feeding. Among the subjects
ere Nursery Hygiene" Contagious Diseases, "
-Enlergencies-' The NurEing Baby and Feed
ing Of Older Children Some of the talks are
demonstrations showing how 70 give different
medicinal baths how irrfgate the bahy's throat,