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10.—Feeding bottles used should draw easily; infants should not be allowed to suck
at empty bottles; care should be taken to keep the bottles scrupulously clean,
and also all parts connected therewith; bottles without tubes are preferable to
those with them; attention should specially be directed to insure that the
interior of the teat is always kept clean; unless the feeding bottle and the parts
connected with it are kept clean the health of the infant is very liable to suffer.
(b) Over Seven Months.
11.—Once a day the child should have a meal of milk thickened with baked flour or
good, well-baked bread, which should be thin enough to pass through a strainer
and should be given out of a bottle; in addition the child should have plenty of
milk, warmed and slightly sweetened.
12.—The child should be completely weaned from the breast or bottle by the time it
is nine or ten months old.
13.—At ten months a little broth or beef tea should be given every day in addition to
plenty of milk, also a good fresh egg daily mixed with milk or lightly boiled, or
made into a light pudding with milk may be given.
(c) At One Year.
14.—A child should have for breakfast a full half-pint of milk with a little bread in it,
or a little bread and butter, occasionally a slightly boiled egg or thin oatmeal
porridge should be given. For dinner, broth, beef tea, boiled fish well minced, or
underdone meat well pounded, by turns, with a tablespoonful of well mashed
potatoes or greens soaked in gravy, and a tablespoonful of milky rice or custard
pudding. For tea, bread and butter with a full half-pint of milk should be given.
Between breakfast and dinner a little milk should be given, and a little milk may
be given again just before bedtime.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Old Street, E.C.
October 84th, 1899.