"NOTES FOR MOTHERS."

Mataura Ensign, 2 July 1914, Page 4

"NOTES FOR MOTHERS."

In future pamphlets entitled ".Voter: for Mothers" are to be distributed' amongnersons who apply for the maternity allowance in Australia. They b;ive been prepared by the Victorian branch of the British Medico] Association, and the Maternity Allowance Commissioner, Mr (J. T. Allen, who is a bachelor, is making provision for their distribution. One desk with "maternity" and the other with "the care of the b«vby." In the hin-ts on how to look 'after the baby is a prohibition against the use of comforters. Mothers are adjured to nurse their babies on the 'breast, 'but if necessary to give caws' milk; to take every care to insure that the. milk is &erm free; to never wake the baby for a drink unless otherwise directed • by a doctor, and never to try to keep milk warn.j for the infant when -trajvellinp; or feed-' at night as ins multiply, \\ waini milk Kull instil}' tion, .no also gi\en is to feeding .indj nursing in the lii.iteinits pamphlet A warning k guen ,d(ohol inj.iny foini The dier should be simple ,jnd noun-hunr,' with plenty of sample thinks. '