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envied, being far better cared for than many infants 

 of the rich and well-to-do classes. 



Nevertheless they are paupers. Interesting as the 

 Consultations de Nourrissons are, viewed as an ex- 

 periment, it is quite obvious that they do not solve the 

 problem of getting a milk supply for infant feeding 

 that is safe and pure. They are well-intentioned, 

 and highly illuminating, efforts made to improve 

 the lot of the worst-conditioned classes of infants. 

 Our need in America is not the establishment of such 

 charities, though it would doubtless be a good thing 

 if, in connection with well-managed infants' milk 

 depots, at which people of all classes could buy safe 

 and wholesome milk for their infants, we had a similar 

 system of advising mothers and supervising the health 

 of their infants. 



(2) Gouttes de Lait}^ As their name implies, 

 the Gouttes de Lait are primarily milk depots. Like 

 the Consultations de Nourrissons, they encourage 

 mothers to suckle their offspring wherever that is 

 possible, and, like them, they exercise a good deal of 

 supervision over the child during the nursing period. 

 But they provide principally for the babies who must 

 be artificially fed, and it is a rare occurrence for a 

 mother who is able to nurse her baby to take it to the 

 Goutte de Lait. The first of these institutions was 

 founded in 1892 by Dr. Variot, in connection with the 

 Belleville Dispensary, Paris. It was an offshoot, or 



