It is a conviction of all that, at the high number of deaths from tuberculosis, which affects our numeral settler, weighs about him other coefficient, which represents the infant mortality rate, has a numerical value which equates to tuberculosis, and has the aggravating circumstance at this time relate on capital income life. It is true that all high birth city like ours, also has a high mortality, but this statement never explain, in Lima, the mortality of which are still within the first year of life, grow up to 7.77 per thousand inhabitants, rate at which it exceeded that found in other capital cities, and only resembles our own figure of fatality from tuberculosis, a figure already known to all, and makes our capital, of most tuberculous cities.

In 1908, a study of the mortality of infants in Lima, observed in summary, the following, in respect of birth: 1 .- From 1884-1904, the number of legitimate births is 47% and the 53% illegitimate without hereafter has been significantly altered this conclusion. 2 .- The illegitimate birth rate in Lima, is greater than in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santos (Brazil), Santiago de Chile, Valparaiso, Mexico and many cities in the United States and European states. It is only less than that of San Salvador, which reaches 68%. 3 .- Indigenous produce more legitimate, and then follow the white mestizos. 4 .- Indigenous produce the largest number of illegitimate, then mestizos and whites soon. It is, however, Indians are the most prolific, fleeing or not fleeing unless paternity. This is a general demographic observation; called inferior races, and less subject to economic, leave demotic better inc...

At the meeting of March 18, 1919, held by the Academy of Medicine of Paris, Professor CH. ACHARD said: "One of the peculiarities of the prevailing epidemic of grippe, noted the rarity of the disease in infants, and it was thought that the newborn enjoyed a certain immunity, however, we have observed in our little creche. Necker Hospital, 32 cases in children under two years until ", and then the distinguished professor of clinical medicine, the 32 cases in groups of clinical forms, from our present point of view, no intervention rates.

There surely means promoting formula feeding, the earnestness that pediatricians everywhere, have to find the best ways of not only resemble cow's milk to human milk, but modifying the first so that it could serve the best success, clinical needs. This and childcare, have always required a good preparation to flee as possible empirical procedures and approaches to scientific truth. But as the situation of the pediatrician is to vary greatly, and Advancement as necessary in each case there scientific procedures for modifying cow's milk, which does not allow but one guy in the amendment, which by its nature unchanged by their permanent status, can only be used in certain cases, and will be used only moderately in many others. Modified milks GAERTNER of BACKAUS of VIGIER, Dufour, MONTI, etc., used between us, be very scientific basis, not satisfied at all times, because their preparation ob...

During the eight years preceding the Great War, Mr. Variot examined ten thousand nurses, which blow from the field after being breastfed their own children, for seven months, the Roussel law, seeking placement in the department of the Seine, and they all had an abundant milk secretion. The observer found that the diet of the nurses, bread and soup, formed the base. So also found large consumers of bread among the best nurses in the "Drop of Milk" in Belleville, and the Institute of Childcare "Enfants-assistés" obtaining higher milk production, which increased, in various forms, its ration of bread. Mr. Variot refers to endorse his assertion two cases -of well noticeable among others galactogogia this phenomenon, achieving weight gain in an infant of three months, which rose from 19 grams to 30 grams daily, acquiring its maximum daily gain the fifth month of age, after the mother had inc...

It is often daily, in private practice in child medicine, need fast tables that indicate the portions of the infant, but how are you have many terms, and all essentially numerical, it is almost impossible to keep in memory all the details of these tables. With good fortune, you can recall one or more of the statements of this or that month of the child's life, more in the moment - that the pilot did not choose, but the clinical case is offered - it is necessary formulate the conditions of feeding the baby, is the operator with a lack of tables, or infidelity of memory in the whole series of them, or statements of doubt that the case, worth as much as the complete oblivion well apart from the fact natural, not being able to remember all the numbers that are abundant table of rations.