MILK AS A DIET FOR CHILDREN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 983, 18 February 1881, Page 3

MILK AS A DIET FOR CHILDREN.

It was a very old remark (says the London Times) that children brought up chiefly on a milk diet, as contrasted wi'h flesh, or too exclusively bread, grew up taller, healthier, and stronger, as well as more lively, cheerful and happy. The freh use of milk in some of onr union workhouses has entirely changed the health, the looks and the spirits of the children, insomuch as to leid some people to demand that every laborer’s child should have the same advantage. No doubt it is a question between milk and strong drink. Few children brought np on the former care to touch even beer, or ConM be made to swa'lnw spirits, except by force. There is really some hope of a national return to the products of the dairy in preference to those of the brewery and the still. Literally millions of acres .have been withdrawn from tiie cultivation of wheat to tnake dairies and grazing farms. The plon-. n. which in 'he memory of man wa« seen in the suburbs, and even on (lie sites of public edifices ; n onr great towns, is imw not to b e ,cenp even within walking distano '. The c-w is there instead. The children are the better for it, and. if the imp-m-ement is nnt so palpable and the children are not quite as they should be. we have to reeo'lpot the unfavorable atmospheric conditions in which they work, and live, and sleep/and even take their exercise.