The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-07-17
PURE MILK FOR BABY
Thorough Heating Will Kill Germs.
If Their Presence Is Suspected
Directions for Home P~asteurizat-
iOn-Care of the Bottle.

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Nothing is SO important to the
health of the baby in summer as the
right kind of food. When for any
reason breast milk cannot be had a
substitute must be found.
Experience in many thousands Of
cases has shown that cows milk is
the only food that can take the place
of mothers milk with even a fair
prospect of having it agree with the
baby. Neither condensed milk nor
the infant foods sold in the stores are
so good as clean cows milk for the
baby who cannot have breast milk.
Germs multiply very rapidly in
milk, so rapidly, in fact, that even if
it is reasonably clean when drawn it
may become dangerous food if left
standing in a arm place for some
time. These germs may be killed by
heating the milk. Boiling it for hall
an hour is a safe method, and is some-
times advisable in very hot weather;
but the method of heating the milk
without boiling it called pasteuriz-
ing is usually employed. An easy
method of home pasteurization is as
follows:
Put a gallon of water over the fire
in a clean pan or kettle. When the
water is boiling hard take the ket-
tie from the fire and allow it to stand
on a table for ten minutes uncovered.
Then put in the filled and corked
nursing bottles and leave them for
half an hour covering the kettle
meanwhile with a blanket. At the
end of the half hour remove the bot
ties and cool them as quickly as pos
Slble to so degrees and put them
where they will keep cold until need
ed.
When it is time to feed the baby
take out a bottle and set it in a pail
of warm water over the fire to heat.
The mother may test the warmth of
the milk by sprinkling a few drops
or her arm. If it feels just slightly
warm it will be right for the baby.
After the baby has finished, the
bottle should be rinsed, and filled
with cold water. At some convenient
hour in the day the mother will wash
all the used bottles with soap and
warm water, using a bottle brush to
clean the inside of them. She should
then rinse them and boil them in the
same pan or kettle in which they
were pasteurized.
The nipples should be washed care
fully. A little salt rubbed on the in
side will remove the milk. They
should then be rinsed and dropped
into boiling water for a few moments.
They will dry with their own heat
when removed. They should then be
put away in a dry glass jar that has
also been boiled, covered and kept
out of the light.
When handling the sterilized nip
pies take hold of them by the lower
rim. Do not touch the part which is
to go into the baby's mouth. Never
the milk, as the baby might easily
be made sick if the mother happened
to have a cold or throat trouble.
1t will be found convenient to have
enough bottles, nipples and clean bot
tie corks for the entire twenty-four
hours, and it will be a great saving
of time if all the feelings are made
up at once This will also insure
their being of uniform quality.
Whenever possible the baby's bot
ties should be kept on ice. A home
made refrigerator which will keep
milk sweet for "a hours is easily and
cheaply made at home. For this pur-
pose procure a lard or candy pail, or
a galvanized bucket, or even a wood
EN- box with a cover, in the bottom
place a layer of sawdust an inch thick.
Inside the box or pail place another
smaller receptacle, such as a ten
quart pail (tin), with a cover, and
fill all the space around it with saw
dust. This inner pail holds the ice
and the milk.
The ice will keep longer if it is
broken up and enclosed in a small
covered pail. Put the little pail in
the bottom of the refrigerator and
pack the bottles around it, and put
the v on. Then close the outer
cover, which for additional protection
may be lined with newspapers, or with
a cushion stuffed with hay or straw.
Where ice cannot be had, the bottles
may stand in a pail, under a stream
of running water.
A bottle baby should be fed with
the same regularity as a nursing ba-
by. The bottles may be given at 6
and 8 a. M, at II noon, and at s,
6 and 9 p. m. Up to the age of four
months the baby will need one more
night feeding. After that he should
sleep all night.
Beginning at the fifth month the
time between feelings should be
heightened a quarter of an hour each
week until the terval IS four hours,
when the baby six months old.
Give no other foos than the bottle
feelings and drinking water in the
first few months of the baby's life.
The baby should nurse slowly, but
ought to finish his feeding in about
twenty minutes. If he is inclined to
take his food too greedily, withdraw
the nipple from his mouth several
times during the feeding and let him
rest a moment.
1t is especially important in sum-
mer not to overfeed the baby. 1t is
far better to keep him on rather a
low diet than to bring on an attack
of diarrhoea by giving him too much
food, or that which is unsuitable, or
by feeding him at irregular intervals.
MOST CHILDREN HAVE WORMS