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trying to treat people as something less than human beings, 

 and that was wrong. The right view was, as Dr. Talbot 

 had described, to take the unmarried mothers in. What 

 they had been accustomed to do was to run away from the 

 unmarried mothers, but this had not been successful, and 

 so they must try the better way and treat them as human 

 beings. 



Dr. KERLEY (New York) said he would like to ask Dr. 

 Pritchard whether or not he had any scurvy by the use of 

 the dried milk. With regard to Dr. Talbot's paper he 

 thought the author deserved a tremendous amount of credit 

 for solving the very difficult wet-nurse problem, and they 

 appreciated that a great deal of work and time must have 

 been expended on such an arrangement as he had got. 

 Whether it would be practicable for larger towns he did not 

 know. Where he took exception to the author was that he 

 gave them a very high mortality for wet-nursed children. 

 He did not know the doctor's authority, but the statement 

 was quite a reflection on the way in which doctors in New 

 York took charge. 



Dr. SCURFIELD asked Dr. Pritchard if he had made any 

 examination of dried milk with regard to the enzymes. 

 Were they altered at all? 



Dr. TALBOT said that with regard to the mortality of wet- 

 nursed children he was quoting Professor Hopkins and Dr. 

 Holt, although he must say that Dr. Holt had said that the 

 conditions were much better now in the last two or three 

 years than previously. He had been rather suspicious of 

 the figures, and he purposely said " on good authority/' 

 It seemed a tremendous mortality, but they agreed that the 

 mortality amongst these babies was very high. 



Dr. PRITCHARD said that in regard to the question of 

 Dr. Kerley about scurvy, so far as his experience went he 

 had only seen a few cases of very mild scurvy when fed 

 with milk prepared by the Just-Hatmaker process. Bevenot- 

 de-Neveu milk had been examined for enzymes, and they 

 had not been found altered in any way. 



