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mortality is considered. In Paris, it is the mother 

 whose baby does not thrive upon the proprietary 

 foods or the ordinary cow's milk that seeks the Goutte 

 de Lait. In New York City such mothers go to the 

 Straus depots, and in Liverpool or Battersea to the 

 municipal depots. As a rule, the children who 

 manage to get along with ordinary milk are not taken 

 to the infants' milk depots anywhere. 



Most of the British depots have some system of 

 registration, and the homes of children receiving milk 

 from them are from time to time visited by lady 

 visitors, sometimes paid, but often volunteer workers. 

 The depots are in charge of women, in many cases 

 trained nurses, and it is their duty to advise the moth- 

 ers to nurse their babies at the breast if possible and 

 to keep a record of the children's progress. Natu- 

 rally, however, they can only make a very superficial 

 examination of the children, by no means equal to 

 that customary in connection with the French de- 

 pots, where there are regular medical examinations. 

 It is not insisted upon, moreover, that the children 

 be brought to the depots for regular examination. 

 This phase of the work is done in a manner that is 

 far from satisfactory, a fact which is recognized very 

 clearly by the authorities themselves. There is a 

 growing desire for the adoption of a system of medical 

 supervision in connection with the depots, somewhat 

 similar to that obtaining in France. The more pro- 



