Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-16

when are working to reduce infant mortality agree
that modified cows milk is the best substitute for
mothers milk. For this reason, they have set them
selves the task of supplying good milk for babies
that are bottle fed. They open milk-stations, where
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 60 behind
the milk station, to the dairy, where conditions are
investigated and the cows are tuberculin-tested
The results of this wonderful campaign 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 the':
learn how to modify the milk to fit your baby's inc,.
vidual 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. If you had tt
hire a wet nurse you would not choose a tubercular
or personally unclean woman. Why permit yous
baby to drink milk that comes from a tubcreular
COW, which is MIXED in a filthy stable.
If you live in a city, write to your department.:
of health or your health officer for information re-
garding certified milk from properly inspected dairies.
If no such Information can be furnished you, then
it is high time that you started a campaign for dairy
inspection in your town.
If you cannot buy certified milk, then look up per-
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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 trust.
AS soon as the milk is deliverd, set it in a cool,
clean place, preferably on ice. Either keep it in a
separate compartment of your refrigerator or make
a small individual refrigerator for it, using a double
pail with ice and sawdust packed around the inner
pail, and have the milk tightly corked in bottles. One
mother who told me about having made such a little
refrigerator, which she keeps in the cellar, learned
to do this fro msad experience. With her first baby,
she kept the milk in a tin pail, hung in the cool
water of an old we'll. The milk absorbed germs and
the doctor traced Baby's death from scute bowel
trouble to these germs.
Scald the vessel or bottles in which the supply
Of milk is to be stored, and allow them to cool before
you pour the milk into them. Never use the utensil
in which you prepare baby's food for any other pur:-
pose. Directlyithe milk is delivered, prepare the sup
ply of food for the ensuing twenty-four hours. Do
not allow the milk to stand around absorbing germs
until you "fnd time to prepare it.
According to DR.. Roger H. bennett, professor OF
%pediatrics at the Post Graduate Hospital, New York
City, plain cows milk with all the cream stirred in,
to which is added water and sugar, should nourish a
baby until it reaches the seventh or eighth month.
After that oatmeal! or barley gruels may be used
instead of water.
The water is added so that the food will not De
too heavy or concentrated for the baby to digest.
There is always a quantity of water in breast milk.
Cows milk is much heavier, The sugar is added, not
to give the feeding a pleasant flavor, but because
sugar has a ~ndtritive quality and acts as a laxative
on the bowels. zone ounce of sugar supplies as much
rourishment as six ounces of milk, but it must be
used with discretion. Too much sugar causes indi-
gestion, vomiting and %diarrhoea, while if too little is
used, the child will not gain in weight.
What is known as malt sugar is most easily d.
gested, and the name of the best brand will be given
on receipt of a stamped and addressed envelope sent
to me, care of this Office.
Now we. come directly to. the all-important ques.
ton Of modifying the milk in proper proportions. and