The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-17
Nothing Like Mothers Milk.
Declares DIR. DeViIbiSS.
Bottle Fed Infants Die i'm Ratio
of Ten to One.
CARE OF CHILD IN SUMMER
Every Caution Should Be OBJ
served, Says DIR. DeVilbiss.
One Thousand Died From One
Cause Alone Last Year.

Mothers milk is the only perfect
and safe baby food during the sum-
mer months. Its use would save the
lives of 1000 Kansas babies every
summer, according to DR.. Lydia De
ViIbiss of the state bureau of child
hygiene.
Every care and caution should be
observed in the care of the baby dur
ing the summer months, bulletin
by DR.. DeVilbiss states. Last summer
1000 Kansas babies died from sum-
mer diarrhoea. The lives of ell of
these tots might have been saved had
they been given proper food. Mother s
milk is the one sure and certain sum-
mer food. Records quoted in the bull
letin today show that ten bottlefed
babies die as compared to the death
of one baby fed from the breast
In her appeal for the care Of the
baby during summer months, Dr. De-
Nilbiss says:
Hot weather is the time of danger
for the babies Nearly 1000 babies
of Kansas died last summer from
summer diarrhoea. These deaths
might all have been prevented II these
babies had been given the proper rooG'
The only perfect food for babies is
mothers milk. 1t is always ready; II
is never sour; it does not have to be
prepared nor measured and 1t is al
ways safe for the baby Breast-teo
which is so fatal to bottle-fed babes
during the hot weather
Ratio Is Ten to One.
There are very few mothers VINO
cannot nurse their babies If they try
to do so under the direction of COM
petent physician, and breast feeding is
the one thing which can prevent TINS
great loss of babies from preVentable
diarrhoea this summer Ten pottle
fed babies die to one that is fed at the
breast. -
When for any reason it is impossi-
BILE to secure mothers milk Tor child,
clean fresh cows milk properly mool-
fled is the best substitute. Unless you
are absolutely certain that the milk
YOU are getting is perfectly safe, 1T is
best to pasteurize it especially during
the summer months.
Pasteurizing milk in the home may
be done simply and easily. After the
milk has been modified, place the
baby's bottles in water to the neck.
Heat the water until 1t comes just TO
the boiling point, tnen set 1t on the
back of the stove for thirty mlnu1es.
After this, the milk should be quickly
cooled and kept on ice until 1t is
wanted. Warm the milk before feed
ing by placing the bottle in hot water
Never keep the feeding bottle warm
all night as the germs will ferment the
milk and make the baby sick.
Give the Baby Water.
Baby needs less food but more to
drink in the hot weather. DO not urge
him ever to take more than he wants
and throw away the balance of the
feeding Never save it for another
meal.
If the bowel movements become
loose, do not neglect it because the
baby happens to be teething; 1t may
mean the beginning of a serious i'll
ness 1t is easier to prevent diarrhoea
than it is to cure it and the proper
treatment at the beginning of an at
tack is worth more than days of treat
ment later.
The important things to do to pre-
vent summer diarrhoea are:
l. Pasteurize the milk in summer.
3 Dilute the milk with boiled water
in very hot weather.
8. If acute diarrhoea begins, stop all
food at once, give only cooled boiled
winter nd send for doctor.