The report of the Philadelphia baby saving show, and the proceedings of the Conference on infant hygiene . tended to help themothers who are nursing theirbabies, as well as to assist in theintrauterine development of thechild and to assist the mother, ifnecessary, during the first monthsof the childs life while she isnursing it; the Consultations deNourrissons, which are attachedto the obstetrical clinics and areintended to encourage the moth-ers to nurse their children, ifpossible, and, where necessary,to furnish a proper substitute forbreast milk; and the Gouttes deLait, which are simply mil
The report of the Philadelphia baby saving show, and the proceedings of the Conference on infant hygiene . tended to help themothers who are nursing theirbabies, as well as to assist in theintrauterine development of thechild and to assist the mother, ifnecessary, during the first monthsof the childs life while she isnursing it; the Consultations deNourrissons, which are attachedto the obstetrical clinics and areintended to encourage the moth-ers to nurse their children, ifpossible, and, where necessary,to furnish a proper substitute forbreast milk; and the Gouttes deLait, which are simply milk dis-pensaries where, while nursing isencouraged, proper advice con-cerning artificial feeding is benefit derived from allthese institutions has been so evident that their organization has spread rapidly,and milk depots may now be found in most of the countries of the world—inFrance, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England, as well asin South America and Africa. New York city now has some 75 milk depots, 55 ofwhich are under the supervision of the Department of Fig. 3.—In Auxerre, in 1898, with no milk depots, 205infants under one year of age of every 1000 born died;in 1904, with some milk depots, 140 died; wliile in1905, with a considerable increase in milk depots, only60 died. The mortality at the same time in infantsfed at the milk depots was considerably less—only 13per 1000 in 1904 and i7 per 1000 in 1905; while inthis chart these results are compared with other townshaving no milk depots, giving a mortality of 120, 157,and 214 per 1000. PROCEEDINGS OF CONFERENCE ON INFANT HYGIENE 195 The first milk depots were all, I believe, organized through private philan-thropy, but in recent years municipalities have undertaken their this country I have personally felt that this work was safer in the hands ofprivate philanthropy, but I believe that those now organized unflcr our New YorkHealth Department will, for the pres
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