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less Infants. I would call attention to the recipe for Infants.
"Mix 10 to 15 parts of Water, according to the age of the
child."
Let me give you the compositions of various milks
by way of comparison.
Mother's
Milk.
193 with 10
parts of water
193 with 15
parts of water
Water
88.6
92.96
95.17
Fat
3.5
0.04
0.03
Casein
2.7 to 3.5
1.42
0.97
Sugar of Milk
5.0
1.35
0.93
Ash
0.2
0.24
0.16
Sucrose
—
3.99
2.74
100.00
100.00
100.00
If the unfortunate Infant is dependent upon the added
ten parts of water, it is bad; but if upon the fifteen parts
of water, it is worse. The child must then drink three
times the normal to obtain the necessary nitrogenous food,
and about one hundred times to obtain the necessary fat.
May I suggest that skimmed milk is much cheaper and
better, when sweetened with sugar, than such condensed
milks.
Of Sweetstuffs for children, five varieties have been
analysed. No. 165 was sufficiently dirty from exposure: if
that could be got over, it was unobjectionable. The others
were clean, and do not call for remark.