The Great Ormonde Street Hospital for Children has installed a laboratory which is the first of its kind to be inaugurated in this country. It is a laboratory devoted to the preparation of Children's Milk Feeds, and has installed, as part of its equipment, draughtproof and germ proof windows. Hitherto the accepted method of Milk Food preparations in hospital has been in Ward Kitchens, ora small room adjoining the ward. Today all milk diets are prepared in a Milk Laboratory by a staff of nurses wearing caps and masks under supervision of a Theraputic Diatician. Actual laboratory equipment includes special refrigerator and sterilisers for feed bottles and tests and a cream separator for human milk. These appliances enable the hospital to maintain a constant supply of Mothers milk for severely ill children, the milk being given to the Laboratory by mothers throughout the country in response to appeals made by other hospitals. The door of the laboratory is fitted with a Hygiaphone and Service slide. By use of this germproof draughtproof sound-transmitting window, the Ward requirements are made known to the nurses, and the container with individual feeding bottles are passed through the slide, thus preventing any possible infectious contagion, even by passage of breath. Picture shows a nurse taking a bottle of mothers milk from the special refrigertor in the new laboratory. - 16th October 1950- 固opFoto