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DRIED MILK.
What every Nursing Mother ought to know.
The Council are selling Full Cream Milk in a dried form
suitable for infants and nursing mothers.
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,
but for much of the milk upon which infants are now fed.
Under present conditions, and in view of the liability to bacterial
changes in fresh milk when kept in the ordinary dwellinghouse,
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,
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 Town Hall 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.