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176 infant mortality; and its causes.
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* , About One-Fourth Of All The Children...
who regards were health fed by and hand growth . Statistics as were chance also in the prove of opposite death that even state certai a change of those risk in
is the incurred natural supp when ly the increases sustenance the of the child b ; a its mother n is y transferred to that by a nurse . Facts supported like these by well
considered figures prove incontrovertibly that it is a crime for mothers to permit anything but ill health to interfere with their
maternal duties . Another fact has special reference to the present causes of infant mortality . Fallen women are very commonly
children employed is as the wet nurses constant , and it result happens . Let that fashionable the death of women their who own very
which employ the these maternal substitutes offices , for impose the selfish lay purpose this cause of escap of mortalit ing the y ties to
heart . As regards the evil consequences , of rearing children by handwe must not omit to mention that they are mainly due to the
mode , in which the children are fed . The infant stomach is only adapted for the digestion of milkor at all events of the blandest
food in a semi-liquid form . But , the children of the poor are commonly given , almost at the earliest ages , portions of whatever
sometimes happens even porter to so form and direct their gin . that parents Ignorance a sing ' meal le injudicious is ; meat here , a potatoes direct meal sends , cause very the frequentl of uncon death y - ,
scious victim out of the world . Mrs . Baines , who has given great attention to the subject of feeding infants , gives a table of fifty
deaths of children occurring at Brighton . From this take the following instances in which the connexion between food and death
p Coroner lainly appears ' s inquest . . Boy Alleged aged three cause months teething , died . in Fed a upon convulsive tea and fit .
, muffin heartily the night before it died . —Girl aged four months , died suddenly in a fit . Coroner ' s inquest . Fed freely on boiled French
months roll given . Coroner with a spoon ' s inquest . Very . Verdict little breast , ct Affection milk . —Girl of brain aged three from
overloading the stomach . " Two cups of arrowroot , milk , and water , in addition to breast milk , within a very short time . —Two children ,
aged respectively _Rve months and seven months . Coroner ' s inquests . Verdicts" Overfeeding . "—These cases happened together in the
same ho , use : the child of a wet nurse and her nursling were fed on a hearty supper of bread , and were found dead at 4 a . _uvi . The
death of another victim , aged four months , is also given ; the treatment pursued and the verdict being precisely the same as in the last
two instances . From these facts it is easy to understand that vast numbers must perish from the slower operation of the same causes _.
The great susceptibility of the infant ' s digestive system makes him peculiarly liable to bad effects from adulteration of his food . Some
time since one of the Metropolitan Officers of Health advanced an op from inion the that general the great practice mortality of adulterating amongst children milk . It in has London undoubtedl arises y
some share in producing it , and is one of the " preventable causes "
176 Infant Mortality; And Its Causes.
176 infant mortality ; and its causes .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/32/
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