CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1168, 6 October 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinionexpressed by our oorrespondontßj. :o: TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —It is an admitted fact that the cause of a good deal of the illness and mortality amongst infants in this and other towns in New Zealand is entirely owing to the want of lime in the water. In this town wc all depend on the ruin for a water supply. Lime being a very important element in building up the bones and tissues of the body, it is absolutely necessary, especially when children are brought up on the bottle, that a small quantity of lime-water, uut. lime-juice, should be added to their food daily. The following extract from the Health column of the Ohifio Witness may be of some service to some of our poorer townsmen who take in the Standard. By adopting the means suggested many a poor mother and fatigued father, who wants sleep after his day’s toil, may obtain rust :■ “Gut a piece uf lime, it makes no difference whether slaked or not, ehake it up in a bottle of water, allow it to settle, ami pour off the clear liquid. 1 >on’t he afraid of using too much lime for your lime-water, as this you cannot do, the water will only dissolve a certain quantity and no more. You may put a table-spoonful in your bottle of water, or a handful, it really makes no difference. Keep the clear lime-water- well corked up, as when exposed to the air, a white stony film soon gathers on the top of the fluid. Try a teaspoonful of this lime-water along with the milk.”

Just a word about condensed milk. Never use condensed milk when you can get. fresh cow’s milk. Condensed milk contains so much sugar, used to preserve it, that no child can digest it roaidilyi PAE£l«OM4bliM?i |