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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...where mothers are accustomed to giving the babies the breast, from 16 to 17 out of every 100 born die during the first year, from 6 to 7 die during the first month, while the number of still births is from 9 to 15 per 1000. In other apparently industrial districts where breast-feeding is abandoned during the period from the first to the fifth month, the mortality is from 18 to 23 during the first year, 6 tp 8 during the first month, while the still birth's number from 20 to 41 in 1000. The mortality among breast-fed infants less than nine months old which came under the supervision of the Board of Health of New York City in 1907, amounted to 25%, while the mortality among the artificially fed was 74.9%. While there has been considerable improvement in the artificial feeding within recent years, and while the decrease in the mortality of nursing babies cannot be wholly due to the influence of mother's milk but to favorable factors which go with nursing but do not go with bottle feeding, Wallin emphasizes that the milk of the mother is the natural food for the baby, and that the mother's breast is not only the best instrument at our command for combating infantile mortality, but it is the source of the prime nutritive elements upon which to rear a strong and hardy stock. Fallacies in Handling Children. Dr. Walter R. Ramsey (Minnesota Medicine, Jan. 1918) calls attention to a few of the hundreds of time-honored fallacies and wrong practices in the care of infants. He says the belief that new-born babies must be bathed immediately after birth is responsible for many deaths. Such infants should be rubbed with warm oil, put in warm blankets and allowed to remain from 12 to 24 hours in a uniform temperature of from 75 to 8o F. without bathing. Another fallacy, acc...
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