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hopeless task to eradicate the habit of its use.
Much good would probably be effected if the
information given above, presented in a simpler
form, were circulated by district visitors, clergy,
and others coming into contact with the poorer
classes. It might be advantageous to prepare a
fly-leaf dealing with the matter of artificial
feeding of infants, to be given away by the registrars
when the parents come to register the birth of
the child. A similar slip could also be circulated
by means of the hospitals.
As the law stands at the present time, there is
no power to compel the makers of the "starvation"
brands to label their tins in so conspicuous a way
that it should be patent to all that the milk has
been skimmed of some, oftener of all, of its cream.
There should be legislation on the lines of that
regulating the sale of margarine, and the tins
should be labelled, in letters of not less than one
inch square, "made of milk deprived of ... of its
cream" and "not fit for the food of infants."
The last cause of death of infants under 1 year
which remains to be considered is that of " violence
and accidents." There were 24 deaths during the year
falling under this classification, 18 of them being
due to suffocation. The average annual number of
deaths from this cause (suffocation) being 11 approximately.
The majority of deaths from