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ledge. Nevertheless here in France the milk has been tried 
by Dr. Depaul, professor at the school of medicine in 
Paris, on four children of the Foundling Hospital, and they 
all four died, two in two days, one in three days, and one 
in four days, and all alike with bilious evacuations.” 
Could any experiments be more dreadful in their 
results ? 
One would hardly expect an official report from the 
officers of those “ charitable institutions ” that furnished 
such an aliment to the children of “ poor mothers,” pro¬ 
vided their experiments in the use of such food were sim¬ 
ilar to those of Dr. Depaul. 
We should rather expect to hear those “poor mothers” 
exclaim from all such destructive charities “ may the good 
Lord deliver us, and our children.” 
We do not know whether or not the percentage of 
mortality among children in any of our large cities reaches 
the “ frightful figure of ninety per cent,” but we all know 
that the mortality is very great. 
Nor is the mortality confined to the children of the 
poor, for if you go through the planes and alleys of any of 
our large cities, you will find them swarming with little 
ones, while the homes of the rich are nearly as silent of 
infantile voices, as though the angel of death had invaded 
all those places, and swept their loved ones into untimely 
graves. 
Not alone on Judean plains are there “ Rachels weep¬ 
ing for their children ” slain by a bloody tyrant, but in 
every city there are mothers weeping for their children that 
have died for want of proper or sufficient nutriment. 
Not only in Germany and England, but in this country 
as well, there may be found various substitutes for milk, 
which for aught we know are as destructive to human life, 
as that used by Dr. Depaul in the Foundlings Hospital in 
Paris. 
These compounds are kept by the Pharmaceutists in 
pur cities, and we understand they find a ready sale. 
