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APPENDIX D.— Continued.
7. The milk should be boiled or scalded immediately it comes, and
then stood in a clean jug in a cool place with a piece of muslin over it.
8. To make barley water, put two good tea-spoonfuls of washed pearl
barley in a pint of cold water, boil down to two-thirds of a pint and strain.
This must be kept in a clean jug and covered with muslin, like the milk.
9. A bottle without a tube should always be used, and the bottle and
teat cleaned with scalding water after each meal.
10. At the age of nine to twelve months, baby may have farinaceous
food with the milk, oatmeal porridge, bread and milk and plain biscuits;
and after twelve months, bread and butter, bread and potatoes and gravy
and eggs, but milk must be the principal food till the age of two years.
11. Before the age of three children should have no meat, and all rich
and indigestible foods such as pork, shell fish, lobsters, baked pastry, new
bread and hot cakes, are liable to cause convulsions and must be carefully
avoided.
12. The cheap brands of condensed milk are not really milk, and
should never be used for children or invalids.
13. The continued use of condensed milk is not recommended, but
when as a matter of convenience it is used for a time the best brands
should be carefully chosen. For children under two months, one large
tea-spoonful should be given with four table-spoonfuls of warm water and
half a tea-spoonful of cream. The strength of the milk and the amount of
cream should be gradually increased as age advances. At six months
there should be one table-spoonful of milk in seven of water.
14. In order that the food may be well-digested, abundance of fresh air
is necessary. Not only should children be out of doors as long as possible,
but indoors the windows of sitting and bedrooms should always be kept
open, wide open in summer, and a few inches at the top, according to the
coldness of the weather, in winter.
July, 1899.
SIDNEY DAYIES, M.A., M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.