Milford chronicle., 1909-06-04
The Square Deal and the Babies
Eleanor Frances Household Letter.)
New York, May IS.

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been reduced from 42o per thous-
and to 81 per thousand, and the
story of the work told by Rheta
Childe Doris is intensely interest
ing to every mother and to every
man and woman who loves babies.
A St. Regis Barn.
The New York Milk Committee
gets milk from a farm where the
cows live in a model barn, made of
iron and glass with concrete floors
where no dust or soil is permitted
to plant germs fatal to babies. The
stalls in this barn are of glass, and
they are cleaned with live steam
twice daily. Every day the cows
are inspected by a physician, and
any not in perfect condition are re
moved. Before being MIXED each
animal is groomed and washed with
pure Spring water and dried with
antiseptic towels, and the men who
do the milking are clad in immacu-
late white linen suits and caps, and
are groomed and inspected, as
carefully as the herd.
The Clean Fresh Milk.
The. clean fresh milk is strained
through sterilized cotton cloth into
sterilized pals, and cooled in a dust
proof room that no one ever enters
except the white clad attendents.
1t is tested to be sure that its quail
ity is Of the highest and placed in
sterilized sealed bottles packed in
ice for shipment to the city labora-
tories where it is modified for the
babies food.
At The Laboratory.
At the laboratory skilled chemists I
clad in white modify the milk, after
a physicians prescription, for each .
baby treated. The prescriptions
varying from week to week to suit
the need of the child, and as fast as
a bottle is filled it is sealed, tagged
and put in a crate Of cracked ice
ready for delivery to the mothers
i'll the early morning.
The Italian "Bambino,
The Italian "bambino" as well
as many other babies of foreign
born parents, are apt to be sewed
into their clothes in a way that pre- ,
vents any bathing of the little 6
bodies, impending almost all natur- {
al motion. 1t is interesting as the
mother looks with fear and disap- s
0roval on the unswaddling of the ]
,hild, to hear the encouragement il
;he receives from other women i
whose babies are thriving under
he new methods introduced by the a
Nurses employed by the Committee. a
These Same Nurses.
These same nurses visit the homes O.
nd instruct the mothers in the gen h
raj care of the children, introduc- +,
1g simple contrivances that keep a
he food in proper condition, and n
eaching many little tricks that
elp greatly to secure health and
omfort for the family, Most of
he children are very sick when g,
rought to the laboratories which VI
lakes the percentage of recovery Ii
ill more wonderful. pl
A Costly Process. -
OF couree all this IS expensive 10
nd the tenements are getting for a nj
w pennies. or for nothing a ser IN
ice hitherto only obtainable by a
le very wealthy classes. W,
The Best Preparations. ID \
The best manufactured baby ~ ~
ods follow closely the processes ]
at have been described. Pure
,ws milk of a quality hardly OBJ sn
Unable by a private consumer is We
ade ready for the infants diges- 70
IN, after formulas of skilled ply erl
clans, who keep abreast with the m,
test discoveries of science, with be
gard to infant nutrition. TIE or,
fest and most successful infants wa
DDS require only the addition of lin
iling water to be ready for use, off
us securing absolute uniformity tb,
diet and eliminating the danger
infection always present where in
sh milk is used. tbe
General Information. tht
Most of the high class manufac- II ~
res Of baby foods, supply for the sio t.
king little books with directions ,;. ~
the general care of the infant, w., w.,
At are invaluable to young moth o., o.
and contain interesting matter ,'n' ,lo
older women. The Nestle na~ .,,'
lnufacturing Cos book is partic- ,oa D''al
Lrly clear and practical quite nv
de- from the food of1esfior,