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contented child: (iv) To have it on a diet which the mother could procure
and prepare herself at home. The simpler the diet, the better. Fresh
cow's milk suitably modified commends itself as the food best suited to the
most delicate infants. But in one of the two cases of Cow's Milk Atrophy
no form of milk, dried, fresh or treated in any way, would agree, and the
child had to be sent home on a proprietary food. The objects aimed at
were attained in all but six cases. I append a list of the results in the thirty
cases.
(i) Recovered 20
(ii) Improved 4
(iii) Transferred to Hospital with Infectious Disease 3
(iv) Removed by Parents with improvement 1
(v) Removed by Parents without improvement 1
(vi) Died (Feb. 1929) 1
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The death that occurred was attributed to Influenza attacking a very
debilitated marasmic child. Infectious disease is unfortunately likely
now and again to break out in children who have been admitted, the infection
not having been known until the disease appears. None of the
infections actually spread in the ward.
At a subsequent date as many as possible of the children who had been
In-patients were inspected, in order that the permanence of the good results
which had been obtained in them might be estimated. Nineteen were
inspected, and the following is the result.
In Very Robust Health 5
In Very Good Health 9
In Good Health 4
In Poor Health 1
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It is cause for congratulation to the mothers that in all but one case
they were able, once they had been given a fair start, to keep up good
progress on the lines laid down.