The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-20
CARE OF BABIES
IN HOT WEATHER
Bulletin From Board of Control Gives
Timely Advice on Bringing
Up Infants.

From the Press Bureau, board of con-
troll of state institutions department
of tuberculosis.
DES MONIES, June 20.-Owing to
the fact that last year S95 babies died
of the cholera infantum and large
number more died of other preventa-
BILE diseases and that much of this
death was due to neglect in the care
of the food of the beby, this depart
ment sends out the following bulle-
tin by DIR. G. H. Sumner, secretary OF
the state board of health. 1t is hoped
that every father and mother of an
infant child will carefully read and
study this communication
"The hot weather of this season OF
the year is extremely dangerous to the
lives of infants and young children,
not only because of the depressing eff
feet of high temperature in general.
but especially because it Is harder to
preserve all articles Of food, especial.
" cows milk in hot weather
For this reason it Is especially i'm
portant that cows milk to be used for
feeding babies should be purest and
freshest that you can Oxford to buy
During hot weather, ice is absolute.
ly necessary for the preservation OF
milk, where cool spring-house is not
available, and no milk should be fed
to baby which is not cooled by ice
around the bucket as soon as il
comes from the COW, and it should be
kept next to the ice until ready to be
used. A little money spent for ice
may prevent illness and it's much
greater expense for nursing, medicine
and medical attendance. Unless you
are absolutely sure your water supply
is pure, 1t is safest to use water which
has been boiled for drinking and foI
the preparation of the baby's food.
In practically all cases the mother
can and should nurse her own baby
Breast-milk is the natural food for the
newborn baby. No other food car
compare with it. Ten bottle-fed bah
les die to one that is breasted.
If it becomes necessary to feed the
baby either entirely or only in par
upon the bottle, remember that alb
solute cleanliness is necessary in al
details of the feeding. Because some
babies have lived through filth is NJ
argument that yours will. AS sooI
as a bottle is finished, it should b.
| thoroughly washed with cold water
! then cleaned with hot water and Dor
ak Zone teaspoonful to pint of water
and set aside in sunny place TO
further cleansing before being use'
again. If you have only a few bottle
and it becomes necessary to use tn
same one for the next feeding, boil
for few minutes with little sod
In the water before putting fresh foo
into it. Never let the baby nurs
from the remains of a bottle whic
he has not finished. Take 1t ava
from the crib, pour out the milk an
clean at once.
lly important. The simpler, the safe
Do not use complicated nipples, an
especially do not use bottle with
long rubber tube. 1t is impossibl
to keep it clean and 1t will certainl
cause bowel trouble. After bottl
is finished, the nipple should be re
moved at once, turned inside out owe
the finger and scrubbed with col
water and brush kept only for thi
purpose. After use, always boil tn
brush.
A bottle-fed baby should not vomt
IL its food is pure, unless 1t is fe
too much at time. Vomiting is III
ually a sign Of approaching illness
either one Of the serious diseases {
childhood, or more commonly in he
weather, of summer diarrhoee. Won
Iiting due to this cause may be tn
first sign of trouble. If vomiting
repeated, stop feeding milk, give waite
which has been boiled, cool or at tn
temperature at which the milk
given, and consult your doctor at ono
G. H. SUMMER, M. D.,
Secretar