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Table XII. Illustrating the Results of Different Kinds 

 OF Infant Feeding as fodnd by Drs. Park and Holt 



One of the most serious objections yet urged against 

 the establishment of infants' milk depots is that they 

 tend to discourage the practice of breast-feeding, 

 whereas society should do everything in its power to 

 encourage mothers to suckle their infants at the 

 breast/^ Theoretically at least, the objection is of 

 the greatest importance, and if it can be shown that 

 the depots do have such a result the wisdom of estab- 

 lishing them is open to very serious question. But 

 do. they? Not a single fact has ever been cited to 

 prove that they do. The objection is based entirely 

 upon a priori reasoning. As a working woman I 

 talked with on the subject at one of the depots said 

 to me, "The doctors as says that only guess what 

 they'd do themselves if they was women." 



It would, I know, be almost impossible to bring 



