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SIX PEATHS OF INFANTS FROM OVERDISTENTION OF THE STOMACH
WITH DRIED PERSIMMONS (KING CHEF) A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY
OF THE CAUSE OF THE EXCESSIVE INFANTILE MORTALITY OF THE COLONY.
From time to time hodies of small children have been seer at the Mortuary in which the stomach was distended to bursting point with a material like coarse vegetables.
I have made many enquires as to what the material might he with the results which are given below. A Committee which sat in Hongkong in 1903 to enquire into the excessive infant lle mortality of the colony did not mention the use of king chee and Doctors whom I have spoken to about it either do not know of the custom or they merely know that King chee is given by mothers to children.
The Cantonese infant is breast fed more generally than
at home. When the mother cannot feed the child a wet-nurse is
whenpossible procured," he fresh milk of animals is almost
never used by the Cantonese as a food for infants though
condensed milk is given to some extent by the poor in coast-124
ports. It is not always possible to breast feed an infant
and the Cantonese resort tq at least two other methods of
feeding very young children. One method is that of piving
what are called birth cakes" these are composed of sugar end
rice the latter is more or less cooked hy dry heat after
we sh 7 and is then very finely powdered.When used je pakeš
are made into an gulsion with water. The birth cake is used
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