Have A Lovely Baby: Breast-Milk Pasteuriser

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

306

Date Released

1983

Length of issue (in feet)

967

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 7

Summary

COI synopsis: The birth of a healthy child is somewhat akin to a miracle - so many things could go wrong. This programme looks at the resources offered by the British health service to care for a mother and her unborn child, and shows how the service can help when something does go wrong. A British firm is now producing a new large scale milk pasteuriser, which, coupled with the careful organisation of volunteer mothers by a London teaching hospital, means that babies in incubators can now have the extra resistance to infection and immunological advantage only breast milk gives.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Children; Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/306

Credits:

Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Cutter: Mike Murray

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