What 95 Bottle-fed, breast-fed, partly breast-fed (when brought to consultation). Kind of milk used.after birth. Breast-feeding stopped entirely raw loose; raw bottled; commercially pasteurized; home pasteurized or sterilized; home modified; Straus modified; condensed; baby foods. Mother physically able to breast-feed--entirely, partly, not birth. Mother prevented from breast-feeding wholly, in part, by disease, selfishness, labor. at all. Bottle-feeding began --after 6 10 11 12 13 14 15 6 17 18 19 20 21 22 Draw line of progress in black ink with dotted lines for absences. In black vertical lines. Estimate "intelligence of mothe Interpret "viability" as the NEW YORK MILK COMMITTEE'S 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 ving history underscore selected words. Indicate home visits and numerical score of homes by 'as though after thorough oral examination on the feeding and care of infants. dant's hereditary chances of living at moment of birth GRAPHIC METHOD OF SHOWING BABIES' PROGRESS :00 -05 -90 -85 -80 -75 -70 -65 -60 -55 -50 -45 -40 -35 -30 -25 -20 -15 -10 -5 clean milk and to support aggressive work by health departments leaves fewer evils unchecked than covering up uncleanliness by pasteurization. When doctors disagree what are we laymen to do? We can take an intelligent interest in the inquiries that are now being made by city, state, and national governments. Because everybody believes that clean milk is safer than unclean milk, that milk at 50 degrees will not breed harmful PRODUCING WINTER CONDITIONS IN MIDSUMMER BY PROPER REFRIGERATION FOR MILK IN FREIGHT CARS germs, we can demand milk inspection that will tell our health officers and ourselves which dealers sell only clean milk at 50 degrees and never more than 60 degrees, that never shows over 100,000 colonies to the cubic centimeter. We can get our health departments to publish the results of their scoring of dairies and milk shops in the papers, as has been done in Montclair. We can tell our health officers that the best results in fighting infant mortality are at Rochester, which city, winter and summer, by inspection, correspondence, and punishment, educates farmers and dealers in cleanliness, not only censuring when dirty or careless, but explaining how to make more money by being clean. Finally, mothers can be taught at home how to cleanse the bottles, the nipples, all milk receptacles, and all things in rooms where milk is kept. Absolutely NEITHER PASTEURIZATION NOR INSPECTION CAN MAKE IT SAFE TO SELL DIP MILK" UNDER SUCH UNCLEAN CONDITIONS clean milk of proper temperature at the shop may not safely be given to a baby in a dirty bottle. Infant milk depots, pasteurization, the best medical and hospital care, breast feeding itself, cannot prevent high baby mortality if mothers are not clean. The most effective volunteer effort for pure milk is that which first makes the health machinery do its part and then teaches, teaches, teaches mothers and all who have to do with babies. |