When  some  time  ago  the  Women's  Patriotic  Association
arranged  to  circulate  a  million  and  a  half  leaflets  on  the
feeding  and  management  of  infants  the  registrars  of  births
were  enjoined  to  do  all  they  could  to  help  in  the  work.  Simi-
larly the  Bavarian  Minister  of  the  Interior  has  issued  a  decree
to  the  District  Governments  urging  them  to  increased  activity
in  the  same  cause.  They  are  asked  to  give  special  attention  to
the  housing  conditions  and  to  the  nursing  and  feeding  of  infants.
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and  to  this  end  are  to  induce  the  district  and  communal  authori-
ties, and  the  medical  and  poor  law  doctors,  to  unite  upon  well-
devised  schemes  of  reform.  The  measures  specified  are  the
estahlishment  of  infant  dispensaries  and  clinics,  kitchens  and
milk  depots,  the  encouragement  of  natural  feeding  by  the  offer
of  money  rewards  and  the  supply  of  milk,  and  the  better
supervision  of  foster  and  illegitimate  children.
