Identifier: milkitsrelationt00unit (find matches)
Title: Milk and its relation to the public health
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: United States. National Institute of Health. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Milk Public health
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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se 1,470 who died of diarrhea, only 139 were breast fed, and1,331, or over 90 per cent, were artificially fed. The following table from Harrington (loc. cit.) illustrates ad-mirably this point at Berlin. The figures given cover the quin-quennium of 1900-1904 and relate to the incidence of deaths amongthe bottle fed and the breast fed when the method of feeding could bedetermined. Table 7. Number of deaths among in- Number of Percentage Percentage Year. fants under deaths of deaths of deaths 1 year of age among of breast- among whose mode breast fed. fed infants. others. of feeding was known. 1900 9,558 895 9.36 90.60 1901 9,3787,0277,6807,780 856 9.17 90 80 1902 768 10 17 89 10 1903 723 9 41 90 59 1904 753 9.68 90 82 Again, Helle 6 in analyzing the infantile death rate of the city ofGraz shows that out of 170 deaths from intestinal disease in the fis- ° Planchon: Prevalence of Diarrhea in the Artificially Fed. Obstetrique,January, 1900. 6K. Helle: Archiv f. Hygiene, 1905, VI, 18. 696
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¥ Fig. 65.—Chart showing the relative mortality from gastro-intestinal disease in breast-fedand bottle-fed infants, 0-1 year of age, in Paris, by weeks and throughout the year. Breast-fed infants =■.Bottle-fed infants = ffl. 697 cal year of 1903-4 but 4 of these were breast fed, 48 were partlybreast fed, 117 were bottle fed^ and in one case the method of feedingwas unknown. Reference to Table 6 shows that the German city of Barmen, withan infant mortality rate of 132 (1906), enjoys the lowest rate of anycity in Germany, and for a number of years has made a favorableshowing in this respect. Kriege and Sentemann a attribute this for-tunate circumstance to the general prevalence of breast feeding inthat city, 63 per cent of all infants being nursed by their mothers,15 per cent being partly breast fed, and only 22 per cent beingbottle fed. Further space can not be devoted to the multiplication of figuresshowing the relative immunity of the breast-fed child to death fromdiseases of th

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