Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-06
Baby Welfare Association n
structs Mothers to Prevent In
crease in Death Rate-"Health-
Ter Than We Are"
Proper Food Clothing, Cleanliness
and Ventilation Are Requisites,
Says Mrs. Margaret Letice.

This is the opinion of Mrs. Margar-
ct B. Lettuce, supervising nurse of
the st. Paul Baby Welfare associ-
alton, who has been a successful
missionary in her work in New York
city and in st. Paul.
Why, babies shouldn't be SICK"
said Mrs. Lettuce today. "They are
healthier than we are. But they are
treated so badly in the summer by
mothers who will not learn how to
take n Of them, that infant NOR
tality is greater during the hot
months than at any other time Of the
year"
" Will Give Advice.
The baby Welfare association has
prepared literature on the care of in
fants, which will be given to any
mother who calls at the association
rooms in the Wilder building, 5th
and Washington Sts., or sends her
name and address.
The care of babies il summer may
be. divided into four groups, Mrs. Let
tice says-food, clothing, cleanliness
and ventilation.
Don't Feed Too Often.
Beware of too frequent feeding, is
the first warning. Every three" or
four hours is held to be sufficient by
the authorities, and babies should
never be feed between times. Ba.
bies should not be weaned during the
hot summer months. The death rate
among all forms of bottle feeding is
10 times greater than when the baby
has breast milk; 80 per cent of all
mothers can Nurse their infants If
they only know how.
II the baby does not thrive it is
because it has had either too much
or, too little food.
II there is not enough breast milk
for the baby it should be given some
additional food, fresh clean cows
milk properly modified is the best.
Do not wean without first taking the
baby to a good physician, or II you
cannot do that bring him to the Baby
Welfare for advice.
Prepares List Of Diaries.
Regarding cows milk, Mrs. Lettice
is having prepared a list of the best
dairies in St. Paul, and the names
will be given to any mother who in
quires. 1t is important that only the
best milk be fed to babies, and Mrs
Lettuce has gone to- the trouble OF in
vestigating the diaries near St. Pau
as to their cleanliness and quality OF
tho milk served, and in a few days
will have the m of dairymen in
different parts of St. Paul whose
milk may be relied upon to be clean
and pure.
Diaries should be patrOnized in
stead of creameries, Mrs. Lettlce
says, because creamery products are
too frequently old and impure.
'' Dangerous to Wait.
When the baby vomits or has
diarrhoea it is sick. Improper food is
the cause OF such illness; therefore
stop all food at once, give cool boiled
water or barley water instead. and
take your baby to a doctor or to the
Baby Welfare at Olc In summer II
is dangerous to wait.
Three kinds of water are suggested
for the baby, when feeding Is stop
ped. Rice water-Take two table
spoonfuls of rice, add one quart o.
water, boil down to one pint v
slow fire, strain; then add 16 ounces
of boiled water. Barley water ant
oatmeal water may be prepared In
the same way. Pearl barley All
Quaker oats should be used.
500 Unnecessary Deaths.
Five hundred babies died in st
Paul last year. Most Of them diet
because they were given improper
food. They could have been saved Il
they had been taken to the doctor a
the beginning Of their illness ant
had been properly fed. .
Proper food for a baby between Il
and Is months old; and the time To-
feeding follows:
Daily Menu.
7 a, m.-Juice of one-half orange
A dish of we'll cooked cereal viii
milk, very little sugar. Piece 0
stale bread, toast or zWiebach ant
six, to eight unces of milk. Sol
egg.
10 a. m.-Graham crackers.
R12 a.. m.-Beef, mutton or CHECKER
soup plus rice and vegetables pu
through a sieve. One tablespoonful
of scraped beef or zwiebach with but
ter. Baked potato. Bread and but
ter. Fresh string beans, peas o
stewed celery or carrots. Cook al
vegetables we'll and put through
sieve.
Dessert-Prune pulp, apple sauce
baked apple, simple pudding. rice
sage, tapioca. bread or custard.
3 p. NJ. II hungry cracker or Gu
of milk.
s p. m.-Bread and milk, milk toas
cereal with milk and a little sugar
milk or cocoa.
All milk should be ~pasteurized a
100 degrees F. for ten minutes o
brought to a boiling point for n t
two minutes.
In Berlin. Germany, recently
there were 1873 deaths in n distric
from intestinal diseases. Only L
we're breast fed babies and III wer
bottle fed.
Nurse at Regular Hours.
Nursing mothers should keep them
selves we'll and their milk in goo
condition by eating at regular hour
three plain, w%ell-cooked meals a day
and they should drink water between