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(h) That it is desirable that mothers should be urged not to
wean their infants until the ninth month of age, except upon
Medical advice.
(i) That it is desirable that mothers should be warned that
the hand-feeding of infants is expensive, troublesome, and unsatisfactory,
risky at all times, and in summer dangerous, and often
fatal.
(j) That with a view not to encourage premature weaning,
it is desirable that milk for the hand-feeding of infants provided
privately or publicly by milk depots, at or below cost, should be
distributed upon the orders of Medical Practitioners.
(k) That, having reduced the number of sucklings required
to be hand-fed to the smallest proportion possible, means should
be devised for providing suitable milk for the remainder.
(I) That it is desirable that cow's milk intended for handfed
infants should be milked, transported, and distributed under
special precautions.
(m) That, in order to prevent the pollution of infants' milk
in distribution and in the home, it is desirable that it should be
protected in stoppered bottles, ready for feeding, and not be
transferred to other bottles.
(n) That the provision of cow's milk, produced under
asceptic conditions, accompanied by extreme cleanliness,
refrigeration and dispatch, so diluted and enriched, and put up
in stoppered bottles in such quantities to be administered at
specified intervals for suckling infants, should be regarded not
only as ordinary food, but in the nature of medical assistance.
From the tenor of these Resolutions which were almost in all
cases passed unanimously, it will be readily seen how wide was