Infant mortality and milk stations ; special report dealing with the problem of reducing infant mortality, work carried on in ten largest cities of the United States, together with details of a demonstration ... in New York city during 1911 to determine the value of milk station work as a practical means of reducing infant mortality / ed. by Philip Van Ingen ... medical director of the Committee for the reduction of infant mortality and Paul Emmons Taylor ... director of the Committee for the reduction of infant mortality.

New York Milk Committee. Committee for the Reduction of Infant Mortality

Date:: 1912

Credit: Infant mortality and milk stations ; special report dealing with the problem of reducing infant mortality, work carried on in ten largest cities of the United States, together with details of a demonstration ... in New York city during 1911 to determine the value of milk station work as a practical means of reducing infant mortality / ed. by Philip Van Ingen ... medical director of the Committee for the reduction of infant mortality and Paul Emmons Taylor ... director of the Committee for the reduction of infant mortality. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$COMMITTEE FOR THE REDUCTION OF INFANT MORTALITY NEW YORK MILK COMMITTEE DIET FOR CHILD FROM J2TH TO J6TH MONTH j^ST MEAL-ON RiaWG. (J) I to 2 oances Juice of a sweet oranse or Polp of 6 stewed prunes or 1 ounce plnejipple juice. . (2) 8 ounces nuUi with either rwieback. or toasted biscuits or stale toasted bread. NOTEi. Fruit must be given eilher 'j hour heioit or 'i hour <fUr milk. SECOND MEAL-DURING FORENOON. Milk alone or with zwieback. NOON MEAL. (t) 6 ounces soup or 3 ounces beef juice. NOTE: Soup ni*y be made o\ chicken. b««l or mutton. (2) Stale bread may be added to the above. FOURTH MEAL-AFTERNOON. Milk or toasted bread and milk. EVENING MEAL. (1) 4 ounces thick gruel mixed with 4 ounces top half milk. Taken with iwieback. NOTE. Gruel may bt m.ide ol oairaeJl, farin*. barley, hominy, wheaiina. or rice- (2) Apple sauce * or Prune jelly. Total milk in 24 hours, 1 to I,'4 quarts. NOTE: 8 ounces Is equal to a half pint. COMMITTEE FOH THE PEDUCTION OF INFANT MOKTALITY NEW YOPK MILK COMMITTEE DIET FOR CHILD FROM J8TH TO 24TH MONTH BREAKFAST. Juice of I sweet orange or Pulp of 6 slewed prtmca or Pineapple juice (fresh or bottled) I ounce. A cereal such as cream of wheat, oatmeal, (arina. or hominy preparations with top mitk (top 16 ounces) sweetened or salted. A glass of milk, bread and butter. NOTEi II constipated glv€ the fruits ! ^ hour before break- fast with waler 1 if not. they m*f be given during the lorenoor. Raw Iruil luice muit be given cither * j hour before or - hour aflei [nllk. FORENOON. A glass of milk witli two toasted biscuits or rwieback or graham crackers. DINNER. Broth or soup made ol beef, mutton, or chicken, and thickened with peas, farina, sago or rice or Beef 'juice with stale bread crumbs; or clear vegetable soup with yolk ol egg Egg soft boiled, with bread crumbs, or the egg poached, with a glass of milk. Dessert: apple sauce, prune pulp, with stale lady-Bngers or graham wafers or Plain puddings: rice, bread, tapioca, blanc-mange. junket ,or baked custard. SUPPER. Glass of milk, warm or cold; iwieback and custard or slewed fruit. Total milk in 24 hours, I'-_■ quarts. COMMITTEE FOB THE REDUCTION OF INFANT MORTALITV NEW YORK MILK COMMITTEE DIET FOR CHILD FROM TWO TO THREE YEARS 'BREAKFAST. ' 1) Juice of I sweet orAdge Or Pulp of 6 stewed prunes or I ounce pineapple juice (fresh or bottled) or Apple sauce. f2) A cereal such as oatmeal, farina, cream of wheat, homtny or rice, slightly sweetened or salted as preferred, with the addition ol lop milk (top 16 ounces) or A soft boiled or poached egg with stale bread or toast. (3) A glass of milk. NOTE: If constipated give the fruiU f-S hour before bruk- fasl with waterj if net. they may be fiven during the forenoon. Milk and tA-m fruit Juice must not be given at same mc^t. DINNER. ' 11 Broth or soup made of chicken, mutton or beef, thickened with arrowroot, split peas. Vice, or with addition of (he yolk of an egg or toast squares. 2) Scraped beef or white meat of chicken or broiled fish (small amount) or Mashed or baked poUto with fresh peas or spinach or carrots. (3) Dessert: apple sauce, baked apple, rice pitdding. junket or custard. SUPPER. (I; A cereal or egg (if egg is not Ukcn wHh breakfast) with stale bread or toast or Bread and milk or bread and cocoa or bread and cusUrd. '2i Slewed fruit. COMMITTEE FOR THE REDUCTION OF INFANT MORTALITY NEW YORK MILK COMMITTEE DIET FOR CHILD FROM THREE TO SIX YEARS BREAKFAST. (I) Fruits: an orange, apple, pear or stewed prunes. '2) Cereal: oatmeal, hominy, rice or wheat preparations. well cooked and salted, with thin cream and sugar or Egg: soft boiled, poached, omelet or scrambled. |3| Milk or cocoa. DINNER. 'It Soup: beef, chicken or mutton. 21 Meat: chicken or beefsteak or roast beel or lamb chops or fish. '3] Vegetables: spinach or carrots or string-beans, peas, cauliflower tops, mashed or baked potato, beets or lett uce (without vinegar). Macaroni, spaghetti. Bread and butter not fresh bread or rolls, i-li Dessert; custard, rice or bread or tapioca pudding, ice cream (once a week), cornstarch pudding (chocolate or other flavor), slewed prunes, or baked apple. SUPPER. I 11 Milk toast or graham crackers and milk or A thick soup, as pea. or cream of celery with bread and butter or A cereal and thin cream with bread and butter. .2i Swwed fruit: custard or a plain pudding: iam or (elly. Suggestions for Diet for the Older Exhibit 38 Children, Distributed Through Milk Stations$

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