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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finsbury 1904
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1904 including annual report on factories and workshops
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Various degrees of modification were made with the average milk supplied by Mr. Carson's herd, and the above were found on analysis to yield desirable milks, and approximately comparable to human milk:—
| Human Milk. | Modification A. | Modification B. | Modification C. | |
These three modifications are used as follows:—
| Standard of Modification. | Age of Infant | No. of Bottles. per day. | Amount per bottle. | Amount per day. |
| 4 | ||||
Variations in quantity are made from time to time, and the
modification is not applied in any hard and fast manner. The
particular milk for each child, whatever its age, is carefully
considered after the first medical examination.
Measured bottles are used with a removable stopper, which conies
clear away from the bottle. When required for use the bottle is
placed in a jug of hot water to bring the temperature of the milk
up to blood heat. The stopper is then removed and a clean teat
placed on the bottle—from which the child can then be fed. Each
day a thoroughly clean and sterile teat is issued in place of the teat
provided the day before, which is returned to the Depot, washed in
warm boracic lotion, soaked all night in boracic lotion, and in the