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Show Marked Decrease Reported In Infant Mortality Rates CHICAGO. Infant mortality in the United States, which amounted to nearly 2 of every 10 babies born in 1900, has been cut by more than 75 per cent. Modern feeding methods, stressing stress-ing prescribed formulas with a base of evaporated milk, share credit with preventive medicine and better average living conditions for the fact that 96 of every 100 babies born this year will attain the age of one year, as contrasted with the 83-in-100 rate at the start of the century. "In the days when feeding canned milk to babies was considered unthinkable un-thinkable by most parents, health statistics showed infant enteritis and rickets taking a heavy toll," said Lester T. Davis, general manager man-ager of White House Milk company, an A & P food stores' affiliate. "Public records show that these diet deficiency diseases prevailed despite the fact that fresh milk was generally available, if not of consistently con-sistently uniform quality. But it became be-came evident years ago that many new-born infants are so constituted that they cannot readily digest fresh milk, while mother's milk normally normal-ly the perfect infant diet often is adversely affected by psychological and physical factors." For this reason, Davis said, doctors doc-tors universally favor the steady, uniform diet of sterilized evaporated milk until the change to fresh milk can be made safely. Last year more than 750,000 of the three million babies born in the United States were fed on evaporated milk formula. for-mula. In the early 1900s these infants in-fants might have represented a serious se-rious baby-health problem, Davis pointed out. |
