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Appendix B.
Extracts from The Diseases of Children 9th Edition 1910 by J. F. Goodhart, M.D., etc., Consulting Physician to the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children; etc., etc.
Edited by G, F. Still, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor of Diseases of Children, King's College, London; Physician for Diseases of Children, King's College Hospital; etc., etc.
CHAPTER V.
Artificial Feeding of Infants--( Continued). Condensed Milk and Proprietary Foods.
Condensed Milk-Amongst the poorer classes there is probably no food which is more often used for the feeding of infants than condensed milk, and we may add that there is pro- bably no food which is more often responsible for rickets of every degree, not to mention various gastro-intestinal disorders and the occasional production of scurvy. Still, in spite of the injurious effects which are so often seen from the prolonged use of condensed milk, there are undoubtedly circumstances in which its temporary use may be of value.
Two kinds of condensed milk are in common use sweetened and unsweetened. might be further subdivided into the cheap brands tnade from skimmed milk, and totally unfit for infants' food under any circumstances whatever, and the better-class brands which are made from whole milk with or without added cream.
These
If condensed milk is to be used at all it must be used with an intelligent knowledge of its relation to fresh cow's milk; some of its disastrous results are due to the reckless manner in which it is used without any regard to the exact dilation which it requires.
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How widely these simple dilutions of condensed milk differ from human milk is sufficiently obvious; but they are often given inuch more diluted than this, an 1 it is little wonder if an infant slowly starves or gets rickets on these mixtures, in which the fat is diluted almost out of existence.
Appendix C.
Extract from Commercial Organic Analysis, Vol. IV, 2nd Edition, 1898, by A. H. Allen, F.I.C., F.C.S., Past President of the Society of Public Analysts, Public Analyst for West Riding of Yorkshire, the City of Sheffield, etc.
Composition of Sweetened Condensed Milk.
Brand.
Description on Label.
Total
Fat.
Proteids.
Solids.
Alderney,
Guaranteed to contain 60 per cent. of
original cream,
68.10
11.05
10+95
Anglo-Swiss,
Best unskimmed country milk,
74.4
10.8
8.8
Beehive,..
From skimmed milk,
77.7
0.2
Cow,
From partly-skimmed milk,
74.9
2.0
11.5
Cowslip,
Skimmed; guaranteed to be entirely pure,!
70-9
1.4
11.4
Cross,.
From skimmed milk,
75-0
1.2
10.5
Cup, Daily,
27
Daisy,
56.9
1:0
8-5
27
29
68.8
1.3
10-2
22
>>
69.61
0.26
*
**
10.58
64.0
0.5
"
27
Darby & Joan,
Contains nothing but full-cream milk,
73.1
9.8
13.3
Farm,
From skimmed milk,
66-6
0.12
10.14
Farmhouse,
77.0
04
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Fourpenny,
79
From unskimmed milk,
76.5
10'4
9.8
From pure fresh milk containing all its
cream,
75-36
5.4
13.18
Full weight,
From unskimmed milk,
76.5
11-0
12.3
Home & Colonial,,
No description on label,
72-6
13.5
9-7
Milkmaid,
Milkman,
Mother,
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Swiss milk; genuine,........
76.3
11:0
9-7
Warranted to contain all original cream,.
73.66
11.8
11-4
From unskimmed milk,
70.6
5-57
8-32
Guaranteed to be prepared with the best
and richest cows' milk,
72-0
8.8
7.3
Swiss (Nestle's),
l'repared from pure milk of Swiss cows,
and only a small quantity of pure
cane-sugar added,..
77-2
13.7
9-7
75.0
13.5
10.44
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Threepenny,
From skimmed milk,
66.25
0.3
10.49
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