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The homes of the children are visited within a day or
two after the child has begun to take the milk, by Mrs. Young,
one of the Lady Sanitary Inspectors, who endeavours to secure
a proper use of the milk. Difficulties are not infrequently met
with in this work. Some mothers deliberately pour the milk
from the depot bottles into the deadly bottle with the long rubber
tube, from which they then feed the baby, and one mother was
found to make a daily practice of pouring the contents of all the
nine bottles into a jug, and then feeding the baby from a longtube
bottle. Her excuse was that she had always been
accustomed to store her milk in a jug, and that she did not
see why at her time of life she should make any change in her
methods of housekeeping. In cases where the milk has been
found to have been deliberately misused the supply has been
stopped.
During the summer of 1905 improvements were effected
in the arrangements for weighing the babies. By the kindness
of the Baths Committee, a comfortable room at the Latchmere
Baths has been set aside for this purpose from 3 to 5 p.m. on
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. The babies are weighed
under the personal supervision of the Medical Officer of Health,
who effects such modifications in the milk as appear necessary
to suit individual cases.
A record of each child is kept, and on the following page
is a reproduction of a specimen page of the case register.