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we point out the duty of parents to provide the best 

 substitute. Mothers are taught how to modify milk 

 in their homes in the simplest way on so-called " per- 

 centage " lines. Sugar of milk is retailed at is. a lb., 

 and its use for bottle-fed babies in lieu of cane sugar 

 has become almost universal. Feeding of babies not 

 more than six times a day at first, and after four 

 months only five times, is strongly advocated, and 

 no night-feeding. The curse of " pap-feeding " and 

 the need for hard dry food and training in mastication 

 before the end of the first year and onwards, are 

 insisted on. 



The Society came into existence, as I have said, 

 six years ago, to continue and extend the work which 

 had been already established on definite lines, the 

 leading aims and objects of the founders being 

 defined as follows : 



AIMS AND OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 



(1) To uphold the sacredness of the body and the 

 duty of health ; to inculcate a lofty view of the 

 responsibilities of maternity and the duty of every 

 mother to fit herself for the perfect fulfilment of the 

 natural calls of motherhood, both before and after 

 childbirth, and especially to advocate and promote 

 the breast-feeding of infants. 



(2) To ACQUIRE accurate information and know- 

 ledge on matters affecting the health of women and 

 children, and to DISSEMINATE such knowledge through 

 the agency of its members, nurses, and others, by 

 means of the natural handing on from one recipient 

 or beneficiary to another, and by the use of such 

 agencies as periodical meetings at members' houses 

 or elsewhere, demonstrations, lectures, correspondence, 

 newspaper articles, pamphlets, books, &c. 



(3) To specially train and to employ qualified 

 nurses, whose duty it will be to give sound reliable 



