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letter by post or a carefully worded advertisement in the public
press can be very convincing to the wife of an unemployed man
especialiy when accompanied or followed quickly by the receipt
of some alluring sample, when to use the women's own words
"She is not getting her proper support" and who there[???]
cannot see how she can possibly naturally feed her offspring successfully,
and in many such cases the damage is done before the
opportunity is given to interfere. If to this commercialisation of
the diet of infants there were no counteracting influence in the
shape of Maternity and Child Welfare Centres it can readily be
imagined that the day would soon come when artificial feeding
would be a national custom to be quickly followed by the day
when women, through neglect to use it, would be unable to perform
one of their most essential functions.