e hair
thoroughly.

Nits: If the head is shampooed regularly each week as above described,
it will cure and prevent the condition of "nits."

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CITY OF NEW YORK

DIET FOR CHILD FROM 12TH TO 18TH MONTH

FIRST MEAL--ON RISING.

(1) 1 to 2 ounces juice of a sweet orange

or

Pulp of 6 stewed prunes

or

1 ounce pineapple juice.

(2) 8 ounces milk with either zwieback, or toasted biscuits or stale
toasted bread.

Note: Fruit must be given either 1/2 hour before or 1/2 hour after milk.

SECOND MEAL--DURING FORENOON.

Milk alone or with zwieback.

NOON MEAL.

(1) 6 ounces soup

or

3 ounces beef juice.

Note: Soup may be made of chicken, beef or mutton.

(2) Stale bread may be added to the above.

FOURTH MEAL--AFTERNOON.

Milk or toasted bread and milk.

EVENING MEAL.

(1) 4 ounces thick gruel mixed with 4 ounces top half milk.

Taken with zwieback.

Note: Gruel may be made of oatmeal, farina, barley, hominy, wheatena, or
rice.

(2) Apple sauce

or

Prune jelly.

Total milk in 24 hours, 1 to 1-1/4 quarts.

Note: 8 ounces is equal to a half pint.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CITY OF NEW YORK

DIET FOR CHILD FROM 18TH TO 24TH MONTH

BREAKFAST.

(1) Juice of one sweet orange

or

Pulp of six stewed prunes

or

Pineapple juice (fresh or bottled) 1 ounce.

(2) A cereal such as cream of wheat, oatmeal, farina, or hominy
preparations with top milk (top 16 ounces) sweetened or salted. A glass
of milk, bread and butter.

Note: If constipated give the fruit 1/2 hour before breakfast with
water; if not, they may be given during the forenoon.

Raw fruit juice must be given either 1/2 hour before or 1/2 hour after
milk.

FORENOON.

A glass of milk with two toasted biscuits or zwieback or graham
crackers.

DINNER.

(1) Broth or soup made of beef, mutton, or chicken, and thickened with
peas, farina, sago or rice

or

Beef juice with stale bread crumbs; or clear vegetable soup with yolk of
egg

or

Egg soft boiled, with bread crumbs, or the egg poached, with a glass of
milk.

(2) Dessert: apple sauce, prune pulp, with stale lady-fingers or graham
wafers

or

Plain puddings: rice, bread, tapioca, blanc-mange, junket or baked
custard.

SUPPER.

Glass of milk, warm or cold; zwieback and custard or stewed fruit.

Total milk in 24 hours, 1-1/2 quarts.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

CITY OF NEW YORK

DIET FOR CHILD FROM TWO TO THREE YEARS

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