Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29
qaences on Children.

Fact at influence the conserVa-
toy childhood, that tend to the
up of race that shall be
both mentally and physically.
took up the subject beginning
the qualifications necessary t" a
ppy marriage, and followed it
rough the various stages of the
sducation of the child to maturity.
MANY, if not most of the compli-
cations of childbirth declared DR..
Synnott. "are preventable, and the
expectant mother should be instruct
ed TO keep in close touch with her
physician so that danger signs will
be promptly recognized.
1T should be the aim of every
physician to use his influence as a
medical man and a citizen to improve
the milk supply of his community.
The propaganda for pure milk is
necessarily mainly an educational
one. The public must be taught it's
Importance, and this is where the
physicians influence counts. The
American Association of Medical
Milk Commissions, when it drew up
and adopted its classical Methods
and Standards for the Production and
Distribution of Certified Milk did
an excellent thing in showing us just
what the essential factors are; but
the establishing of medical milk COM
missions does not by any means solve
the problem. A code to be effectual
must be mandatory, and a scoring
system should be adopted with the
understanding that the producer who
does not reach certain specified per-
centage should not be allowed to call
his product Certified Voluntary
inspections of diaries by busy medical
practitioners are bound to be few and
far between. and when they are
made are apt to be hurried and in
efficient. The inspections should be
made by paid inspectors at regular
intervals: funds for such work to be
raised by the imposition of a bottle
tax upon the dairymen.
state Control of Milk.
- "Better than certified medical milk
commissions would be efficient State
control by a department of the State
Board of Health, who, with COM
petent paid inspectors, would take
over the classification of the output
of the various diaries, grade them ac-
cording TO percentages obtained by
scoring, and reject all supplies which
do not come up to certain minimum
requirements.
Until such time as we can get
fresh pure milk, shall be opposed to
raw milk for young babies. because
believe heating the milk not only de-
stroys most of the bacteria, but
makes it more digestible for the baby.
] believe the objections to cooked milk
are exaggerated, and that its greater
safety far outweighs any possible in
jury to its nutritive properties from
heating.
ut has been stated by numerous
observers that babies fed for long
period on sterile milk and other sterile
food have less resisting power to Vari-
GUS infections than babies not so
carefully fed; and that babies fed on
sterile food are particularly prone to
tuberculosis. / am coming to this
belief myself. Within the past three
months | have seen two cases of this
kind: the first, baby fed from birth
most carefully on sterile food. most OF
the time prepared in the laboratory
died at fifteen months from tubercu-
losis peritonitis, which diagnosis was
confirmed by autopsy; the second,
case of tuberculosis of the spine at
two years, in a case fed with equal
care from birth on sterile food.
ImmuniLing Against Diseases.
"Our knowledge of immunity
teaches us that when bacteria are in
PRODUCED in the tissues they set up a
reaction which, in turn, results in the
elaboration of anti-bacterial and I'M
munizng substances in the organism
more than sufficient to destroy the in
Nading microbe. providing the infec-
ton has not been too Virulent; and
when recovery takes place the indl-
Vidual will have in his organism an
excess of these substances rendering
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ton for a longer or shorter period
We also know that when dead mi
crobes are inoculated parenterallN
into our bodies. they stimulate the
production of minimizing substances
in the tissues where they are injected
Upon this phenomenon depends me
science Of vaccine therapy, which has
done so much in combating various
infectious processes and In i'm.
munization against typhoid fever and
other diseases.
THE experiments of Sir Almroth
T.. Wright and other scientific men
show that immunity may be ac-
ouired by bacterial invasion. While,
therefore, there is good reason for
giving young babies sterile food, this
plan should not be kept up too long,
and after six TO nine months, the
child should be gradually accustomed
to raw milk, providing it is clean and
fresh, and from healthy cows.
Institutional Care of Infants.
1.-THE statement has been made by
certain superficial Investigators that
hospitals, founding Institutions and
childrens wards tend to increase in
FAINT mortality rather than 70 reduce
it, and that sick infants can be bet
ter treated in their homes, even
though these homes be very poor
ones. Such criticism is as thought
less as it is unjust 1t would be bet
ter to study the defects and short
comings of institutional care win
the idea of remedying them rather
than to condemn offhand. Hospital
mortality is due to conditions readily
understood One cause is the failure
of the physician to recognize the fact
that very many of the more serious
conditions OF infancy must have hos
pital care and treatment If life is TO
be saved The foolish attempts at
treating such cases in their homes,
waiting to send them to the hospitals
until the symptoms are so bad that
the condition is practically a hope
less one, is factor often overlooked
by those who compile hospital sta
tistics.
Sex Hygiene.
THE movement to introduce In
struction in matters of sex into the
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