The Penn's Grove record., 1915-07-09
PURE MILK FOR BABY
RIGHT KIND OF FOOD is ESSEN.
TlAL TO HEALTH.
Thorough Heating VIII XIII Germs, II
Their Presence Is Suspected-Dl-
rectlons for Home Pasteurization
Care of the Bottle.

prepared for this paper by the Children's
Bureau, U. 8. Department of Labor.
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 pros
pect of having it agree with the baby.
Neither condensed milk nor the infant
foods sold in the stores are SO good
az 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
reasonable clean when drawn it may
become dangerous food if left stand
ing in a warm place for some time.
These germs may be killed by heating
the milk. Boiling it for half an hour
Is a safe method, and is sometimes
advisable in very hot weather; but
the method of heating the milk with
out boiling it called p~asteurizing 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 kettle
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
with a blanket. At the end of the half
hour remove the bottles and cool them
as quickly as possible to SO degrees
and put them where they will keep
cold until needed.
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 bot
tie should be emptied, rinsed, and
filled with cold water. At some con-
venient 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. This
kettle and all the dishes used in pre-
pairing the baby's food should be kept
for that purpose alone.
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
put the nipple into the mouth to test
the milk, as the baby might easily
be made sick il 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
up at nee. 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 ven a wooden
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 t%en-quart
pail (tin), with a cover, and fill all
the space around it with sawdust.
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
cover 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 baby.
The bottles may be given at 6 and
9 a. m, at IL noon, and at 3, 6 and
9 D. 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 interval is four hours,
when the baby is six months old. Give
no other food 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 diarrhea by giving him too much
food, or that which is unsuitable, or