Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-09 | Page 6 | Advice on Your Health

Advice on Your Health By Morris Fishbein Editor Journal American Medical 4 Physicians both in this country and abroad are convinced that the refinements of life and social comfort have not tended to encourage encourage encourage en en- courage mothers to feed their own babies Indeed the effects of our most complex civilization have been to the contrary As far back as the eighteenth century women of the nobility and women of fashion hired nurses to take care of the baby In those days our modern methods of artificial artificial arti anti feeding were unknown Cows Cow's milk was not a satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory substitute for mothers mother's milk If the mother failed to obtain a awat wet wat nurse she either had to nurse the baby herself o oJ or permit the child to die Now we have much about feeding of babies that we have many alternatives We not only have cows cow's milk in usable in-usable form together with feeding bottIes bottles bottles bot bot- tIes and all of the other paraphernalia paraphernalia paraphernalia nalia that goes with artificial feeding but also dried milk condensed condensed condensed con con- milk and milk substitutes C iii C C Most physicians are convinced that artificial feeding should never be used if the mothers mother's milk is satisfactory and if she can be persuaded to undertake the feeding feeding feeding feed feed- ing of the child herself Physicians Physicians Physicians are convinced that a good many of the unnecessary deaths of infants could be prevented by getting more and more mothers to nurse their babies Here is an example of the fact that unlimited funds will not always result in inthe inthe inthe the right answer to problems in preventive medicine In different parts of the world the attitude toward this subject varies In certain British communities communities communities com com- I it was found that from 75 to 85 per cent of mothers were nursing their babies at least d ding ing the first few months of 1 L Just as soon as the mother J back to her daily work how howe how she begins to look forward t tot to t time when her baby can evil weaned 1 1 S SIn In Edinburgh it was fou found d t II 87 per cent of mothers were feeding their babies on the t f ft day In another Bri Bril community it was found th that r per cent of mothers were t. t feeding their babies at ti th months but only 35 per cent the age of six months to C i In the United States the figu seem to vary in different parts the country depending on t tl number of foreign born in t i population the financial status the persons concerned and oth factors j I 3 Among babies listed in int tl infant welfare service in Chicag Chicaj only 48 per cent were entire breast fed for nine months r seems possible that about 20 pi P cent of babies are artificially to ff almost from the day of birth 3 The figures from all over t tl ti world seem to show that brea bre fed babies are more snore free tr disease and have havea a a greater chane of recovery from disease than d c artificially fed babies J Dr J. J C. C Spence feels that U 11 question as to whether or no not lili mother shall nurse her baby is E. E a athe to hel be the utmost importance c mental state He is psychological E Ewell awell a- a that there is a value to the UM well as physical nursing process and that tat tn the thO mother who nurses her own ha paw baby I Ihas has a distinct sense of this process ha haa has BBS hasa ment Therefore a definite value in iii maintaining maintains the mental health of the mo MM moth S