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Melissa Vickers <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 8 Sep 2006 07:34:10 -0500
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 The great
> superiority of the breast-fed over the artificially-fed child is seen in 
> the
> following report issued by the Children's Bureau of the US Dept of Labor 
> in
> 1915.
>
>                                                        Artificially-fed
> Breast-fed
> Deaths at two months of age                237 per 1000            72 per
> 1000
> Deaths at eight months                        53 per 1000             26 
> per
> 1000
>
> Hoefer and Hardy report* that artificially fed children were "inferior
> physically and mentally to the breast-fed. Except for height, they ranked
> the lowest in all the physical traits measured." They were poorly 
> nourished,
> more susceptible to the diseases of childhood and slower in learning to 
> walk
> and talk.

*Hoefer and Hardy: Jour. Am. Med. Assn., 1929, vol. 92, p.615.

Sorry about the omission!!
Melissa Vickers, IBCLC
Huntingdon, TN 

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