, 1909-05-29
BABIES SUFFER By PASTEURIzED
MILK.

DR.. LlnnaeUs h. La Fetra, OF this city, Is
another high authority who is emphatically
opposed to the pending city ordinance provid-
my for the compulsory pasteurization Of
milk. In his own extensive practice he has
frequently found the use Of pasteurized milk
in the feeding Of young children to be the
cause Of i~nfantile scurvy.
DR.. La Fetra is instructor in discusses Of
children at Columbia University, the chief Of
that department il the Vanderbilt Clinic and
the assistant attending physician to the Ba-
bIeB' Hospital He is a fellow OF the Ac-
cademy Of Medicine and Of the American
Pediatrc Society.
"For infant feeding" said DR., La, Fetra,
"where the mother milk is not available,
there is, Of course, nothing equal to clean
raw milk from q healthy COW, and produced
under sanitary conditions, this raw milk to
to be properly modified for the use Of young
children"
Some Of the bad effects Of a pasteurized
milk diet for babies were startiugly shown
in q paper prepared by DR.. La Fetla for
publication III the American journal Of the
Medical Sciences on the subject "Infuntile
Scurvy." In that paper DR.. La Fotra
said
"~UndoubtedIy scurvy has occurred in IN
fants for centuries, but has not been suffi-
GENTLY frequent for extended or careful
study until the two last decades, During
this period the very common use, by those
who can afford it, of dried proprietary infant
foods, OF Of sterjlized milk, has greatly in
creased the number of such cases."
One of Many Cases.
One of the many ilu, trative cases cited by
the physicians was that of Alice j., eight
and one half months old. This child had
been fed from birth on q modified milk
made up and sterlizcd in Il laboratory.
When seven months old the baby developed
clear symptoms of scurvy. "Ihree weeks
previous to my visit, said Dr., La Fetra, 81
prominent orthopaodic surgeon saw her and
lua. e that diagnosis. He advised discOn-
tIuung the use OF barley water and substi-
tuting pasteurizntion of the milk for the
sterilization. For the week preceding my
visit the baby had been getting worse. the
milk meantime bong both poptonizod and
paetaurizod.'
After describing The shocking condition
Of the chill Us he first saw her, DR.. ia
Fetra says :-"There was no question about
tho diagnosis, but only in regard to the
treatment. Characterization of the milk
was stopped ana orange juice and beef
Juice ordered to DO given, II teaspoonful
Of each three times u day. In twenty -four
hours the tenderness WIS loss acute aod IA
a week the swelling was percoptlbiy smaller,
the baby using her legs freely. She is
now SIX years old, weighs ~farty-six pounds,
has perfect u5e OF her legs and ~ a splendid
specimen Of health
Another case, which DR.. La Fe.ra dis
tinctly labelled "Developed on pastourizod
milk, was that Of James Ne. Co. eight
md a half months old. II had been n
healthy child" says DIR. LII Fotra, Ted
from early infancy on modified milk from
a we'll known laboratory. The laboratory
directed the feeding and changed the
formula as necessary, l was told. More
over, | learned that the food had always
been pasteurized. The formula being taken
was:-Four per cent fat, SO per cent
sugar, 2.5 per cent proteids pasteurized."
Baby's conditions distressing
This baby's condition, as the physician
found it, was distressing. it had no use
whatever of the lower limbs and the mother
thought the child had paralysis. "The
INSTRUMENTATION was discontinued, the mar
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