Report of the Commission appointed to enquire into and report upon the general and infantile mortality; together with Minutes of the Sittings, Evidence of Witnesses, &c.

  • British Guiana.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Report of the Commission appointed to enquire into and report upon the general and infantile mortality; together with Minutes of the Sittings, Evidence of Witnesses, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MUNICIPAL MILK DEPOT. 328, Manchester Road, Bradford, cost of establishing, &c. Working Expenses. RENT WAGES— ]M anager Bottle Washer Boy Carrier £35 per annum. =£104 per annum. 12/- per week. 8/- per week. 151- per week. Alterations to Premises, &c. Approximate, per City Architect Folding Tables 6 Blinds and Blinds repairing ivlinor Expenses. Advertising ... Printing Carriage from Leicester £ 3. d. . 130 0 0 4 4 0 . 5 13 6 £139 17 6 £ s. d. 1 .5 6 2 12 0 0 4 10 £4 Appliances, Requisites, &c. £ Boiler, 2 Sterilizers, Bottle Washing Machine, &c., approximate, per City Architect ... ... ... 70 Draining Rack ... ... ... 3 180 Baskets, iic 13 Milk Filter, Bottling Machine, Bottle Filler, Gerber Tester, 2 gross Bottles and Washers, Milk Pails &c. 23 2 Sterilizers and Thermo Opal Scales 1 5^ lb. Washers Bottles (9 crates and 1 cask) Teats Shovels, Screwdrivers, Hose. ttc. Jackets, Caps, &c. Books, Labels, Arc. Bin, Scoops, Brushes and Baskets .. Steaming Basket and Sample Square Basket Bottles (7 crates) Cold (Ice) Store 1 24 1 0 1 2 2 0 26 50 s. d. 0 0 10 0 9 1 10 0 12 6 12 0 12 7 15 8 10 11 11 0 12 4 5 0 13 8 0 8 0 0 £223 15 5 Sterilising Apparatus by Messrs. Vipan & Headley, Leicester. Cold (Ice) Store by Mr Hall, Sheffield. Other Appliances through L. de Wyttenbach, 8 Torrington Square, W.C. MILK STERILIZING STATIONS FOR GEORGETOWN. [Extract from Town Superintendent's Annual Report, 190o.'\ As pointed out in one or two of my previous reports, one of the direct results of enforcing the by-laws for the regulation of Cow Pen and Dairies, has been to transfer most of the cow-pens from town to suburban and country districts. This may be satisfactory enough in one way as improving sanitary conditions in town, but it removes the milk supply of the city from our direct control; which fact sug- gests the advisability of establishing sterilizing stations at the entrances to the city from the East and West Coasts and Banks, through which all milk sold in town should be compelled to pass, there to be sterilized and certificated. This practice is now largely carried out in home cities, and in most country creameries and butter factories. CONSULTATIONS FOR INFANTS IN FRANCE. Ahsiract of pci'per by Leonard Robinson, 31.D. (Ed.), M.D. (Paris), imhlished in the Practitioner,'' October, 1905. 1. Origin.—After pointing out that to Professor Budiu is due the honour of enacting this new organisation in France in 1892, Dr. Robinson goes on to explain the objects aimed at and the method pursued in these words :— The consultations are destined to induce women, who have been delivered in the Maternity, to return to an infant out-patient department that their babies may be watched and the feeding directed. Each mother receives a card, on which are inscribed the date and the number of her confinement in the Hospital register, the weight of the infant at birth and on leaving the ward. At each visit she shows the card, and it is a simple matter to turn up the case and curve of the daily growth of the infant. The infant is undressed and weighed ; the present weight and the average daily increase being written on the card. Each mother in turn passes the doctor, who examines the baby, encourages the mother to continue giving the breast and gives necessary advice. When the mother has not »nough milk, either through deficient secretion, or owing to illnes.«. Professor Budin advises mixed feeding, as much as possible being given by the breast, and the deficiency made up with sterilized milk ; when tiie mother has no milk at all, or when she brings back the infant, who has been put out to nurse, and has fallen ill, then only is the infant fed entirely on sterilized milk ; the quantities of milk prescribed are written down on the register and on the card which the