| 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 modem feeding methods stress ing prescribed formulas with a base of evaporated milk share credit with preventive medicine and better average living conditions for the tact fact that 96 of every babies born this year will attain the age of one year as contrasted with the 83 in rate at the start of the century in the days when feeding canned milk to babies was considered un thinkable by most parents health statistics showed infant enteritis and rickets taking a heavy toll said lester T davis general 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 it if not of con uniform quality but it be came evident years ago that many newborn new born infants are so constituted that they cannot readily digest fresh milk while mother s milk normal ly the perfect infant diet often is adversely affected by psychological and physical factors for this reason davis said doc tors universally favor the steady uniform diet of sterilized evaporated milk until the change to fresh milk ca cah be made safely last year more than of the three million babies born in the united states were fed on evaporated milk for mula in the early these in tants might have represented a se rious baby health problem davis pointed out |
