MILK FOR INFANTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 June 1912, Page 10

MILK FOR INFANTS.

The English Local Government Board recently issued a report by Dr Janet E. Lane-Glaypon on the available data in regard to the »alu© of boiled milk as a ! food for infants aad young animals. In her conclusions she says; The balance of evidence, both experimental and clinical, points in the main to $bjß game conclusions. The lines of research show (1) that there is apparently no serjous loss of nutritive value produced by feeding an animal upon boiled milk derived from an animal of *he same species. At the same time it must be pointed out that the published evidence on this point is scanty; (2) that when an animal is fed upon milk of another species, the milk from which has. been found suitable for this purpose, such small differences as! have been found in the nutritive values of raw and boiled milk have been in favor of boiled milk; (3) that the milk of the same species has a considerably higher nutritive value for that species than the milk of any other species so far investigated. The evidence dealt with throughout the report enforces the importance of breast-feed-ing for the young of all species, and shows the special importance of breastfeeding during the early weeks ef life.