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TROPICAL HYGIENE, SANITATION, ETC. 



VEGETARIANISM. 



Nature never intended that man should be strictly vegetarian. 



In herbivoruus animals the aecum is very much larger in pro- 

 portion than man's, in order to accommodate and digest the bulk of 

 vegetable matter necessary. In man, this organ, not being so 

 necessary, has atrophied, the often troublesome appendix being a 

 portion of the atrophied organ. 



The gastric and intestinal juices of man are intended for the 

 digestion of meat foods. 



Peas, beans and lentils are amongst the most nutritive of vegetable 

 foods, but much of their protein is undigestible. The cellulose wall of 

 most vegetable cells containing about 20 per cent, of protein cannot 

 be digested in man and forms the large residue of the stools of 

 vegetable feeders. 



Xuts are only to be consumed in very limited quantities. 



Milk, eggs and cheese are certainly good and rich in protein but 

 thev belong to the animal kingdom. 



It is true that less meat and more vegetable foods should be con- 

 sumed b}' Europeans residing in the tropics. 



INFANT FEEDING IN THE TROPICS. 



^^"hen Nature's provision is sufficient, infant feeding is simplicity 

 itself. It is with the artificial feeding of white babies that we are here 

 concerned and that in countries where good cow's milk is rarely 

 available. 



W. E. Deeks has studied this subject at Panama and gives us the 

 results of his experience as follows. 



Table for Infant Feeding. 



T7 , Amount of Interval of 



Pormula u r j i j- 



each feed feeding 



Plain boiled water two or three times 

 X. y. z. 



3 60 ... i-i oz. ... 2 hours 



Age of infant 



1 day 



2 days 



!1 

 )> 



3 



4 



5 

 6 



7 ,. 



1-4 weeks ... 



4 weeks to 3 months 



3-6 months ... 



6-9 ., 



9-12 ,, 



•3 

 3 



3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 



z. 



60 



5° 

 40 



30 



24 

 20 

 16 

 12 

 12 

 12 

 12 



1 oz. 

 i^ oz. 



2 oz. 



3-4 oz. 

 5-7 oz. 

 7-9 oz. 

 8-iooz. 



2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 



2 

 2 



2i 

 3 



3 



4 





Note : 



X. 



y- 



z. 



equals sweet condensed milk 



,, unsweetened condensed milk 



,, boiled water, or after six months of age, barley water 



The contents of every bottle should be tasted first by the mother to 

 see that no alteration has taken place in the contents. 



