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At two months of age milk and barley water should be given in equal
quantities, and the proportion of barley water then gradually decreased
till the child is eight or nine months old, when pure milk should be given.
7. The milk should be boiled or scalded directly 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-spoonfals of warm water and
half a teaspoonful 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 fre9h 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.
Medical Officer of Health.
Small-Pox:
Protection afforded by Vaccination.
The Small-pox epidemic in London and suburbs shows no signs of
abating ; and the risk of infection is now widespread. It seems far from
improbable that the epidemic may reach much greater proportions. It
therefore is desirable that the great protection afforded by recent vaccination
should be widely known.
There are a large number of intelligent persons who would be willingly
re-vaccinated if they knew the truth about vaccination. For their sake
the following facts are published.
In Allbutt's System of Medicine the facts as to all the epidemics of
small-pox occurring between 1888 and 1896 are collected, making 14,000
cases of small-pox. Of the vaccinated children under 10 years of age who
were attacked, only 1-4 per cent, died, whereas of the unvaccinated children,
35'6 per cent. died.
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