Show SAVING THE BABIES MILK DEPOTS ARE DOING EXCELLENT WORK city of no chester N Y a pioneer in movement lent that will interest every mother throughout the country it la is estimated SO 50 per cent of all deaths of children childred under one year of ago age aro are duo due to gastro enteric diseases and the evidence points strongly to the impure milk fed ed to the tha bahles babies ns as the chief cause of this unnecessary waste of baby life compared with the rooney money expended to protect the purity of other foodstuffs the sum re quiren to insure an adequate supply of clean pura milk for the tha thousands of babies who must of necessity depend upon cows milk Is a more bagatelle dr george W goler coler of rochester es timotes that it la Is possible to obtain a bu supply MAY of milk for the summer months july and august which can conscientiously be labeled food and not poison for the babies in a city which has a population of at an expenditure of about 1090 1000 the estimate Is based on the amount it costs the city of Koc liester annually to maintain its ts milk depots A preliminary feature of 0 this supervision of tile the sources of the babas milk has been the selection of some come farm within reason reasonable ablo distance from the city in which tho the dairy and cows are kept under cleanly wholesome conditions the source of supply selected elected and the milk contracted for a portable laboratory Is erected on the place and the establishment Is put in chargo charge of a trained nurse nume who supervises the milking the sterilization of the utensils bottling packing and shipment of 0 the milk milic packed in ice fee the milk Is carried to the city and distributed from rom four centers lu in as trany parts of the city during the ten years before tho the establishment of 0 the thet the total number of deaths of children under one year was from 1897 when the work was wag begun to 1906 the total number of 0 deaths of children of at that age was a reduction ot of over 30 per cent without taking into consideration any inq increase rease in population during that period the tha milk depot or dispensary under the supervision of 0 physicians and the caro care of trained nurses has become a recognized necessity and where the municipality has been indifferent to its obligations the responsibility has been shouldered by philanthropic als or private charities classes tor for the instruction ot of mothers in the proper care of the babies and the regular ot of the babies by the physicians and nurses have added immeasurably to the permanent bene benefits alts from the milk stations maternal nursing to la encouraged whenever that to Is P possible os sible and somo some of the stations follow oa the load lead ot of other countries countr lea in supplying the nursing mother with nourishing food it she needs it and if she cannot provide it for herself |