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BOROUGH OF HORNSEY.
Directions for the Feeding and Care
of Infants.
1. Infants should, whenever it is at all possible, be fed at
the breast for a period of six months at least; but, if that cannot
be done, for as long a period as may be. Breast milk is much
more wholesome for an infant than cow's milk.
2. They should have the breast not oftener than every two
hours during the day, and every four hours during the night. At
the end of three months they should be suckled at longer intervals.
When they are fretful or suffer from indigestion, it will often be
found that they are being overfed, and diminishing their diet
will then put them right.
3. The mother should, in order to supply wholesome milk
to her child, partake only of plain and wholesome food, avoiding
intoxicating drinks such as spirit® and beer. If she suffer from
sore nipples, they should be washed with warm water after the
child has fed, and some glyoerine should then be applied.
4. When, from want of milk, or from an absolute neoessity
of going to work, a mother cannot suckle her infant, the next best
thing, as a rule, is to feed it on cow's milk, prepared as follows:—
The milk should be boiled as soon as possible after it is received.
The jug into which the milk is received should be placed in the
coolest place available, which also must be kept scrupulously
clean. After each time of using the jug should be washed
out with clean cold water and then scalded out. It should
then be covered over with a clean cloth until it is required.
When the milk has been poured into it, the cloth should
be replaced. For the sake of coolness the milk jug may be
kept in a basin containing cold water.
Half a pint of good fresh milk, and one pint of water, with a
small teaspeonful of white sugar are mixed and boiled, and
then placed in a clean jug, covered with a clean cloth.
Four tablespoonfuls of this should be placed in the feeding