INDEX 



343 



Bread, nutritional value of, 63- 

 64. 



Breast-ntiksing : 

 Accompanied by low death- 

 rate of infants, 33, 38, 39, 



159, 296. 



Among Hebrews, 16, 31, 32, 

 296; immigrants, 24; Irish, 

 296. 



Among mothers attending the 

 Consultations de Nourrissons, 

 187-190, 296. 



British Interdepartmental Com- 

 mittee on, 20. 



British National Health So- 

 ciety, the, 116. 



Decline of: ascribed to alco- 

 holism, 30; to atrophy, 17, 

 21 ; dress and, 22-24 ; food, 

 24-30 ; greatest among well- 

 to-do and leisured classes, 18, 

 22, 31 ; Dr. Holt on, 21-22, 

 31 ; Dr. Morgan on, 23 ; in- 

 dustrial conditions and, 17- 

 19 ; necessitates system of 

 artificial feeding, 35 et seq.; 

 not necessarily sign of de- 

 generacy, 30, 35 ; rare among 

 savages and primitive peo- 

 ples, 16, 31 ; result of 

 physiological changes, 17, 

 19 et seq.; voluntary causes, 

 17, 18. 



General in Norway and Sweden, 

 33, 38. 



Infants' milk depots and, 191, 

 235-237. 



Law to punish neglect of, 237. 



Schemes to promote, 39-41, 



160, 187-190. 



Substitute (wet-nurse), limita- 

 tions of, 44. 

 The Consultations de Nourris- 

 sons and, 187-190, 296. 

 British well-to-do classes infertile, 



6. 

 British Medical Journal, 61, 100, 

 140. 



British Royal Commissions and 

 Parliamentary Committees, 

 20, 124, 125, 128, 129, 138, 

 140, 143. 



Brockton, Mass., has bacterio- 

 logical standard, 115. 



Brush, Dr. E. F., 124 n., 218, 

 254 n. 



Budin, Professor, 40, 188, 190. 



Buffalo, N.Y., condition of milk 

 supply of, 141-142. 



Buffalo's milk, 49. 



Bulgaria, infants' milk depots in, 

 192. 



Bimge, Professor von, 20, 30. 



Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 United States Department of 

 Agriculture, 99, 127, 147 n. 



Burnley, England, infants' milk 

 depot in, 197. 



Burton, Mr. E. W., 149 n., 281. 



Butter made from tuberculous 

 milk dangerous, 140. 



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Cambridge, Mass., has bacterio- 

 logical standard, 115. 



Camel, milk of, 49, 51, 53, 54. 



Camel, unsuited to American 

 needs, 65. 



Caiiada, decline of birth-rate in, 

 5, 6. 



Canada, infants' milk depots in, 

 192. 



Carbohydrates, 52, 64. 



Casein, 50. 



Cat, milk of, 49. 



Cato, 10. 



Cattle, tuberculosis among, 134- 

 139. 



Certified milk, 113, 219. 



Chapin, Dr., 36, 65, 76, 113. 

 quoted, 36, 42, 66, 71. 



Chariti Hospital, Paris, 188. 



Chaterinkoff, Dr., 38. 



Chaveau, Dr., 129. 



