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Dried Milk is a valuable food (not a patent manufactured
food), being good cows' milk from which the moisture has
been evaporated and possesses certain special advantages.
Liquid milk cannot be kept for any lengthened period without
undergoing changes which render it unfit for food, but Dried
Milk can undoubtedly be preserved for a considerable time with
practically unimpaired food value.
Dried Milk is an excellent substitute—not for breast milk
and not for really good cows' milk—but for much of the milk
upon which infants are now fed. Under present conditions
pure fresh cows' milk is practically unobtainable in most towns,
and in view of the liability to bacterial changes in fresh milkwhen
kept in the ordinary dwelling-house, especially in hot
weather, it is often desirable to use dried milk in preference.
By its use waste is preventable; the exact quantity can be
made up as and when occasion requires.
The processes used in drying milk largely reduce the
number of bacteria present and materially decrease the risk of
conveyance of disease from tuberculous milk, a very common
cause of tuberculosis in children.
Mortality figures showing comparison of death rate between
children fed on Dried Milk and other hand-fed children
are strikingly in favour of the use of Dried Milk.
Scurvy and Rickets are rare in infants fed on Dried Milk,
and their occurrence is probably not attributable to this form
of food.
Full Cream Dried Milk requires to be mixed with about
seven parts by weight of water to give a mixture corresponding
to ordinary milk. Therefore, 5 ozs. of Dried Milk should
reconstitute to correspond to one quart of milk.
Dried Milk is cheaper than liquid milk, and it is sold by the
Council at cost price for the safeguarding of the health of
young children and nursing mothers.
Dried Milk can be obtained from the Town Hall, Stratford,
Public Hall, Barking Road; Nurses' Home, Howards Road,
Plaistow: and the Maternity Centre, Barnwood Road, Silvertown,
by Nursing and Expectant Mothers for their own
consumption or for the use of children under three years of age
in accordance with a Scale adopted by the Council. Dried
Milk can also' be obtained from the above places for the use of
children between three and five years of age, but in such case a
medical certificate must be supplied in respect of each child.
Any nursing mother experiencing difficulty in preparing
the milk should send a Post Card to the Medical Officer of
Health at the Town Hall, Stratford, when a Health Visitor
will call and give all the information necessary.