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Ladies' Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1 August 1924, Page 45

rirst 1 ufe and Free from Harmful Bacteria. CHILDREN may suffer from overfeeding, or from being fed with food too rich and nutritive, no less than from receiving too little nourishment. As the amount proper for one child may. be too much or too little for another, a hard and fast rule cannot be laid down. The doctor, nurse or mother must determine in each case the strength and quantity of food to be given. With the instructions below you can make humanised milk that is pure and free from injurious bacteria. To make Humanised Milk. To make a quart of milk which is as near in composition as possible to human milk, take : One 11-oz. Tin "Ideal" Milk Half ounce Milk Sugar (One Tablespoon) Two ounces Cream (Two Tablespoons) Place in receptacle, add sufficient boiling water to make one quart, and cool immediately. When made up, the milk must be kepi in a cool place and used within twenty-four hours. When required for the bottle, warm to new milk temperature (95 degrees Fahrenheit) and add a lew drops of orange or other fresh fruit juice. When starting to feed an Infant on "Ideal" humanised milk it is advisable to add more water for the first few days and gradually work up to the full strength. "Ideal" Milk is also put up in halfsize tins, which, with half the quantity of the other ingredients, will make one pint of Humanised milk.