RICKETS IN CHILDREN.
IMPROPER, FEEDING IN INFANCY. ; (By ,®o!oefwli.—Vr&i. - Auckland, February 13. A most interesting paper was sub■mittc.d at tire Medical Congress By Dr.. liarvcy Sutton, of Melbourne, on tho. important question of "Rickets in Homo ; Lite." The writer's conclusion, after tho examination of many school children, was that a largo number wore woody, and showed signs of rickets. Upon investigating the. cases, lie panic to tlift decision, that they were duo to improper feeding in infancy, . , 'l'he dootor stated that ho found that those Tvho'Jind beon breast-fed for nino or ten months practically remained healfhyiihd'Mrfljiff 'iii alter life. Tliciw I)roast-ferl for three months showed a larpo ljcrcenfhgo " a.f i icKets This, he explained, was duo ' to the- fact that.in tho caso of infants breast-fed for tha shorter period, tho : mothers generally used some proprietary . food.--- Bottto-fc4 babies oho Buffered from rickets, tho exception being infants 1 wlio had never been brca.strtedi' anct ■ who lia.d received .food under medical advice, the-'food ill that cain efinsistina of some form of cow,'a. milk.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1984, 14 February 1914, Page 10
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171RICKETS IN CHILDREN. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1984, 14 February 1914, Page 10
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