The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-01
Birmingham Mothers Are
 Interested h Baby Week.
Week of June 5-11 Is Red Let ter Affair in Many Homes, Where Needs of Infants Will Be Studied and DiscusSd
ny BERNEY GILLEN

Probably one of the most interest," ing weeks of the year is that of Baby Week" This is an annual campaign which never fails because its subject Is irresistible, Who could be callous to the charms of a baby7 Careless to its well being yet many are. However, not con- sciously careless. not intentionally neglectful; just failing to realize the scrupulous care baby needs to develop and thrive.
 Baby Week was originated to meet this situation, and It's object Is to educate parents in the newest sci entific methods of caring for their children and to center a community's interest in it's babies and it's he sponsibility for them.
 Bread Is the staff of life" so the old adage goes, but the milky way is the healthy way for all babies. Food facts are ever important to mothers, and the following extracts taken from the chIIdren's bureau bulletin will be of interest to the mothers of this city in the discussion of milk"
 Indispensable Food
 Fresh, clean. raw cows milk is the ideal form of artificial food, and therefore the most desirable for the human infant"
 Cows milk srould not only be pure, but the rcsher it is and the fewer manuipulations 1t has beer subjected to, the less possibility there is of it's having been altered in any of itG essential properties as a complete food"
 Tn our large cities-where milk has to be furnished to thousands of infants, where it has to be supplied from a large number of small and large dairies So that the adequate inspection Is difficult, and where 1t must be transported long distances an kept for long time-ordinary raw mill, is not safe food for in- fants."
 "Pasteurlzed milk is not sterile. and 1t will keep us.less quickly chilled ard kept chilled until used it should be sed within 36 hours after being pasteurlzed. Stale pas teurized milk ma be more danger ous than stale raw ilk. because putrefaction. If started, will progress more rapidly in milk which has been pasteurized."
 Clean, fresh cows milk is the best available form of milk for chill dren after they are weaned. Pas- teurized milk, sterilized milk, or ca red milk may be substituted for 1t wben clean, fresh cows milk can not be obtained"
 Every growing child is better and more cheaply r, shed If 1t is .,iven clear whole milk, either as a drink or in the CO., 'sed food making up the daily diet. A pint and a ralf of whole milk daily is the safe amount thought desirable to nourish the young child (from IS months to I2 years of age), when the rest of the diet Is balanced.'
 The average child today does not have enough of the right sort of food and cannot have it's food cut down nor the important articles of diet replaced by questionable substitutes without grave danger of increasing malnutrition in our child popula- ton"
 Lowered nutrition in children means decreased vitality and low cred resistance to disease. If the nutrition of our children is impaired for any length of time, full juvenile development will be permanently arr rested Nor is the physical stunting of the race the only evil that serious undernourlshment of our child pop ulation entails. Intellectual and moral abnormaiity are largely influ- enced by physical health, and a