The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-03
Little alks on Babyology
By Anna Seese Richardson Director Of the Better Babies
Bureau Of the Woman's Home Companion
Modified Milk and the Care Of Bottles

All over the country, the splendid
reduce infant mortality agree that
modified cows milk is the best substi-I
tute for mothers milk. For this rea-
son, they have set themselves the task
of supplying good milk for babies that
are bottle fed. They open milk sta
tons were certified milk is sold to
mothers of babies, and where these
mothers are told how to modify the
milk, how to keep it sweet, and how
to care for the bottles from which it Is
fed. Then these organizations go BE-
hind the milk station, to the dairy,
where conditions are investigated and
the cows are tubercuHn-teseed
The results of this wonderful cam
paign are shown in the reduction of
mortality among babies in all cities
where such work is carried on.
So If you must raise your baby on
the bottle, first find out the source Of
your milk supply and then learn how
to modify the milk to At your baby $
individual needs.
Know where the milk comes from,
the condition of the dairy and the
health of the COW or cows which will
supply nourishment to your baby. II
you had to hire wet nurse you would
not choose tubercular or personally
unclean woman. Why permit your
baby to drink milk that comes from a
tubercnlar COW, which is MIXED in
filthy stable.
If you live in city write to your
department of health or your health
officer for information regarding certl-
fed milk from properly Inspected
diaries. If no such information can pc
furnished you, then it is high time thai
you started a campaign for dairy in
spection in your town.
If you cannot buy certified milk, then
look up personally a dairyman or a
neighbor whose cows will stand the
test and whose stables are clean. Do
not buy baby's milk at a grocery store
or dairy whose source of supply you
cannot trace.
AS soon as the milk Is delivered, set
1t in COOL clean place, preferably on
ice. Either keep it in separate COM
partment of your refrigerator or make
a small individual refrigerator for It.,
using double pail with ice and saw
dust packed around the inner pail, and
have the milk tightly corked In bot
! ties. One mother who told me about
{ ri On.
which she keeps in the cellar, learned
to do this from sad experience. With
/ her first baby, she kept the milk in a
| tin pail, hung in the cool water of an
old well. The milk absorbed germs
and the doctor traced Baby's death
from acute bowel trouble to these
i germs.
Scald the vessel or bottles in which
the supply OF milk is to be stored, and
allow them to cool before you poul
the milk into them. Never use the
4 utensil in which you prepare baby's
j food for any other purpose. Directl.
i the milk is delivered, prepare the sup
ply of food for the ensuing twenty
four hours. Do not allow the milk t
stand around absorbing germs unit
you find time to prepare it.
According to DR.. Roger III. bennett
, professor of pediatrics at the Pos
Graduate Hospital, New York City
plain cows milk with all the cream
stirred in, to which is added water an
sugar, should nourish baby until
reaches the seventh or eighth month
After that oatmeal or barley cruel
may be used instead OF water.
The water is added so that the foo
!. will not be too heavy or concentrate
for the baby to digest. There is alWay
quantity of water in breast mill
: Cows milk is much heavier. tt:
sugar is added not to give the feedin
: a pleasant flavor, but because susa
a has nutritive quality and acts as
S laxative on the bowels. One ounce {
: sugar supplies as much nourishmeI
as six ounces of milk. but it must b
s used with discretion. Too much suga
o causes indigestion, vomiting and dia
e rhea while if too little is used, tn
4 child will not gain in weight.
4 What is known as malt sugar
/ most easily digested and tie name {
9 the best brand will be given on receiI
of stamped and addressed enyelop
sent to me, care of this office.
Now we come directly to the all-in
{ portant question of modifying the mil
i in proper proportions, and again
! quote DR.. bennett, as he lays down th
! law in his admirable book, "Tn
= Healthy Baby
The quantities of milk, sugar an
q water to be combined depend upon tt
n. baby's weight and age. The amount {
q actual cows milk a given baby neet
! in twenty-four hours to sustain Iii
and make proper gain in weight
! twice the number OF ounces of milk {
he weighs in POUNDS, provided he C.,
:. digest one and one-half ounces of S
- gar in his total daily quantity Of food
j To illustrate: A child three month
= of age who weighs IL pounds, shoul