Infantile mortality and infants milk depôts / by G. F. McCleary.

  • McCleary, G. F. (George Frederick), 1867-1962.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Infantile mortality and infants milk depôts / by G. F. McCleary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H AMP STEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES PREFACE. In ^the year iSgg the St. Helens Town Council, acting on the advice of Dr. Drew Harris, the Medical Officer of Health, ap- pointed a Committee to visit Fecamp and report upon the work of an institution which had been established in that town in 1894 by Dr. Leon Dufour, as an attempt to prevent the heavy infantile mortality dependent upon im- proper infantile feeding. To this institution Dr. Dufour had given the name of Goutte de Lait. The result of the Committee's visit and report was that in i8gg a municipal depot was established in St. Helens for the supply, under special conditions, of specially-prepared infants milk. This depot resembled the Fecamp Goutte de Lait in certain particulars, but, as will appear in the following pages, by no means in all. Similar depots have been estab- lished since in other towns in England and