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For a baby under 2 months old:
Give the milk every two hours in the day and every
four hours at night.
For a baby between 2 and 3 months old:
Give the milk every two and a half hours in the day
and once at night.
For a baby between 3 and 6 months old:
Give the milk every three hours in the day and once
at night.
When the baby is 6 months old the interval between each meal
should be gradually lengthened, and the baby may sleep seven or
eight hours at night without a meal.
8. On no account should the bottle be opened until the baby
is ready to be fed. When feeding time arrives place the bottle
unopened in a basin of hot water for about five minutes. Then
open the bottle and put on the teat. The baby should be fed from
the Depot bottle. No other feeding bottle may be used.
9. When all the milk in one bottle is not used, the remainder
may be given to the other children, but it must not be warmed up
again for the baby. Take a fresh bottle for the baby's next meal.
10. No other food should be given unless ordered by a doctor.
11. Immediately after use the bottle should be well rinsed in
clean water, and the teat should be turned inside out, held under the
tap and cleansed, and should then be kept in clean water until it is
used for the next meal.
12. Breakages will be charged for at the rate of 1d. per bottle,
and damage to baskets must be made good. All bottles, baskets,
and rubber rings not returned to the Depot will be charged full
value.
13. It is important that the child should be brought once a
week to be weighed. A room at the Latchmere Baths is open for this
purpose on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 5 p.m. (entrance
in Latchmere Road).
14. The presence of Infectious Disease in a house must be
notified at once to the Medical Officer of Health.
15. The milk is supplied on the condition that it will be used
in accordance with the directions given above. Should the milk be
deliberately misused the supply will be stopped.