The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-04
MILK FOR BABIES RECEIVES
ATTENTION FROM EXPERTS
New Born Babe Has Less Chance of
Living a Week than Man of 30 OF
Living "a Year, Less Chance Than a
Man of -Four Score Years-Cow's
Milk Must be Pure.


The heavy mortality in the infant
population of the United States under
year of age, and that fact that gas
tro-intestinal disease is one of the
largest single factors, condition due
in great measure to improper
methods of feeding, is of such great
concern as to challenge the best en-
deavors of the foremost minds. The
decrease in the maternal feeding ma
turally brings the next best food sub
stitute-cow's milk-into general use,
with its multitude of endangering in
fuences.
Inasmuch as the chances of a new
born child surviving week are less
| than those of a man of so, and OF Nv
| ing a year less than those of man OF
| fourscore, the three cardinal essen
tials in cows milk are cleanliness,
cold, and speedy transportation from
COW to consumer. Conditioned, of
course. upon the COW being free from
| disease.
Precious as are the lives of infants,
| few are the mothers who give thought
| to the place where baby's breakfast is
| prepared. Filthy barns full of cob
webs. dust, and foul floors, where filth
from legs and tail find lodging in the
mixers pail These conditions and
| the accompanying danger from dis
eased animals has been productive of
infant milk depots, the initial one be-
ing established in St Gertrude's dis
trict Hamburg, in 1SS.
First L. :. Depot i'm New York.
The first one to be established in the
United States was in New York City in
1883 by Nathan Straus. whose phil
anthropy and interest have been potent
factors in extending the movement in
that and other cities of the country.
The institution is under the manage
ment and control of a medical com
mission that employs every precaution
to provide strictly pure article under
the most approved methods.
Four important regulations are re-
ligously carried out in connection
with the management of the place
where the milk is produced, as follows:
1. Inspection of the dairy at regu-
lar intervals.
9. Correct clinical standards of pur-
| ity of cows milk.
3. Bimonthly expert examination of
the dairy stock.
4. Medical supervision of the en-
ployes.
The committee exercises its au-
| thority in such matters as the location
of the land, buildings, water supply,
surroundings, housing and care, feed
| ing. collecting and handling, prepare
ton to shipment, transportation and
delivery. All of the product must
bear date of milking and seal of the
commission. That is wha tbs COM
monty known as certified milk" But
the influence of the commission eX
tends further.
Milk Is Carefully Packed.
All milk is packed to guard against
contamination in the home, and with
this end in view, only one feeding is
placed in each container and the bot
tie so designed that it will not stand on
end, and therefore cannot be left
standing open. The milk, before it is
sealed, is modified to meet the re-
quirements of the infant, embraced in
the prescription of the family ply
sician. If the milk rs too rich in but
ter fat or the butter fat globules are
commission. That is what is COM
mercially known as modified milk"
At the present time there are over
143 of these stations in operation in 20
cities of the United States, and fifty
| four of them are in operation the en-
tire year. the others only during the
summer months, when danger from
contamination is greatest In only
four of the twenty cities, however,
are they operated at public expense
| ;,;,D
Babies of Poor Live i'm Peril.
The infant of the wealthy classes, or
rather the more fortunate financially.
is well provided for with clean,
healthy nourishment, so safeguarded in
every way that with any thing like at
tention the dangers surrounding its
early life are much reduced. But the
babies whose food supply must be Sc
cured from the city supply are indeed
subjected to grave dangers, and the
wonder of medical science is that the
mortality rate is not greater.
And especially is this true in the
larger cities where the supplies must
of necessity come great distances and
be handled many times before they
reach the consumer, for distance lends
added opportunity for contamination.
In the city of Washington the supply
comes from 1000 different dairies of
Virginia and Maryland. Cream comes
from as far as New York and Pennsyl-
| vana. Boston secures her supply al
distances ranging from 40 to 100 miles
| New York city requires 80, 000 diaries
to meet her requirements, situated in
five states, passing through 400 cream
cries and over twelve lines of transpor-
tation. Some of it comes from as far
as Canada.
In the city are $50 wholesale dealers
who supply 1900 retail stores with
100000 quarts daily. OF this guam
tity $4,000 quarts are certified as clean
milk. 1t is estimated that % per cent
is pasteurized.
The term ''paSteuri2ed" consists in
heating to a temperature of 60 de
grees for a period of twenty minutes
followed by rapid chilling and keeping
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