THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1911. CONDENSED MILK.
Tlie maternal relative of Masterton is: just as prone to feed her cherubs upon inferior condensed mlillk' ti.s. is the iovEing mother in any other part of the workk In tlhe exigencies, of m!od,ern life, many a woman doe,s mot stop to enquire tJne ingredients of condensed niiiilk—or of anything else for that imiattter. The poor, hteJiplesis, innlocejit creature in the .siwadlingclo'thes has to take ulhatUs given it. Anul 'then people wonder a.t the infant mortality! 'line Local Gloverninoii,t Board in the Old Country has recently been enquiring as to the composition of some of the condensed lividke pSiaced upon the< market, and the evideniee add/need ih'as been of a somewhat startling character. Dir Arthur Neiwaiholime, Medical Officer of the Board., stated:— "D!r Gouttsi has definitely ascertained tihiat niach-j.ne-i.slcj'tniii^ll condensed, millk is used on a. considerable scale for feeding infants, and he gives .reasons which appear to point to the cionoliusion that this use iwiinorcasing. Infa,nts are thus deprived, of the iiait ulhieh is essential for growth and, health. There 'are serious drawhatehs to the use, except as a temporary expedient, of fu/Mi-cream .sweetened condensed lriilk as an infants' food., tlie most objectionable feature being the presence of excess of isngasr in reJation to other flood elements; but tliie use of sklmunied condensed milk for 1 the same purpose impilies a slow process of partial starvation. Full-oream on sweetened. condensed milk appears to be a suitable substitute when re-
quired 1 , for firesh cow's milk. It lias to be remembered. that although. condensed milk is bactoriologkally. purar than fresh' cow's milk, aits liability to eonaar.Mnuion aftar the tin is opened. m;ik.?s. it a dangerous food for imd:ai ing the sumimeir months. Tl.i. i, aided pe.i-hiapis by tJi'a lowered condition of nutrition associated with the continued use of a food wihiicji is (.:K;",m)07!llry deficient in fat anid conta-uas excessive sugar, There i,s .abundant evidence that babies fed oil oonderos.led' mi lie suffer in a much hiigOier .proportion. fa-om epidemic diiiairr'lioca than do babies* fed on fresh costs' miilk, and. still more than babies wlto are breast-fed'. The increased, risk cf acute illness is not tli'e only danger associated with the giving of condensed. milJik to babies. Plea-haps- even moire, .serious than this is tihie increased tendency to o'ickets." These and other suggestions fbr the administrative control' of the sate of condensed milk for ftoiod of infants- are diistiussteid fiu,My in Dir Ooutt'is report, wilib confirm® the moat important of these- recommendations a.s to the di&sirahi.lity of ],ahe3llimg all) tins of eondieniPsd skimmed msiilk ais being unfit for the lood of infants. It is satisfactory to know that the condensed milks. manufactured ,iin New Zealiand are not mtideof skiinHmiilik, a.nd, are oonseq-uentilfy net devoid cf the nutritive properties. 'his.. at least, sllijouJd Be reassuring to parentis.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10471, 8 November 1911, Page 4
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475THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1911. CONDENSED MILK. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10471, 8 November 1911, Page 4
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