Show MURDER OF INFANTS The dispatch from Washington lon pub published published a few days ago regarding the great mortality caused among infants by impure milk soothing syrups and painkIllers m st have caused a shock to all readers According to Professor ProCessor H W V WHey Wiley chIef of the chemistry bureau of the agricultural department more than a million infants are annual annually ly doped to death and more than twice that number are killed by impure milk Fresh milk Is not responsible for foras foras as many deaths as canned or condensed mIlk accordIng to Professor Wiley and the latter Jatter is harmful mainlY because it itIs itis Is often kept for a long perIod before being used No organism Is so delicate nothing Is Isas Isas as easily upset as the digestive organs of an Infant While sometimes a baby seems to cling to life Ilfe wIth a tenacity that Is marvelous the smallest thing sends others to their graves A food that fattens one child kills another It ItIs Itis Is Impossible to lay down a h hard rd and fast rule regarding the use of con condensed condensed milk or of drugs to allay alJay pain It may be saId as a 8 safe general pro O though that it Is unwIse the point of criminality to g ve a baby medicIne of any sort without first con consulting suiting the family physician Nearly every nostrum for quieting in infants contains some deadly drug The child takes a dose and stops crying cring be because because cause it is drugg d not because the trouble of which it complained in the only way it could complaIn is remedied T The e matter of the use of milk Is a much more serious problem It Is possible to greatly decrease the use of drugs but it Is to get along Without milk f for r small children The only safe safety safety ty in the use of condenSed milk lies In making sure that the product is fresh and untainted This might be brought about by re requiring requiring quiring the manufacturer to attach to each can a label givIng the date of its m king Professor ProCessor Wiley ug ests that this plan would have havo the effect of kill killIng ing the sale of condensed milk Rather would It not cause the establishment ot of small factories In many locations so that fresh condensed milk could be easily obtained at all times This Is done now with yeast cakes It mIght be possible with mIlk |