The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-10-26

Systematic Child-IurdaT n france.
The Paris correspondent Of the London
Star tells this horrible story:
A subject Of deep interest is now discuss.
ed at the French A"adcny Of Medicine, 10
which have already alluded-namely. the
frightful mortality among French children
according to the fashion Of this country, put
out to nurse Every year twenty thousand
babies are se-a gut Of Paris under the care
Of peasant nurses, and Of that number five
thousand on an average are returned to
their mothers, the other fifteen thousand
having died OF cold. starvation. and bad
treatment Since 1916 it has been calcula-
ted that in the neighborh0od of Paris alone
three hundred thousand Of the nurslings
have died in the hands Of their foster moth
ers. Why should such bar6arouS murder
be allowed to depopulaJe the country? It
is entirely owing to the bad management
of the JHreaHc nc a0nrTjccs, over which
government has not till now exercised a
proper amount of surveillance These
officers receive Unfortunately, every
woman who applies to them for employ
ment.
4 fIightful trade is carried on by spccu-
, lators Of tho lowest class denOminated men
ears, who enroll country women in their
pay, convey them to Paris in carts Justly
called 'purgatoIies," obtain for them ba-
! bies whose mothers have applied for a
nurse for their child, and convey them and
! tho Children back to the country. The
horrors that take place during the journey
I to Paris aud back in the vehicle Of the
mcncur are Of so startling a nature that one
could hardly believe them to be true were
/ it not for the unt}oubted proofs which have
| been laid before the Academy OF Medicine.
Thus the countryWOmen makes no scrupie
in exchanging the babies entrusted to them,
and several among them undertake to
nurse two or three children at a time II
have seem" exclaimed N. Cheva,ier, al-
dressing the Academy, zone woman pro.
Tossing to nurse seven infants, and yet she
herself had neither milk nor COW.
Fed with bad broth, exposed to every
species of dirt and neglect, the miserable
infant sickens and dies. The nurse, how
ever, writes to its mother that her baby is
prospering,. that it had grown out Of its
clothes, aud required fresh supply. The
mother naturally spends her month wage
in supplying her chill's wants, and goes on
paying It's board for months after 1t has
been lying in the village cemetery. y con
siderable number Of nurses come annually
to Paris and carry back a supply Of chill
drcn, and not one has ever been known 4
bring child back to tie capital. In thc;l
charge the children simply appear and dis
appear. Dr. Brochard cited in his speech
to the Academy two communcs Of the Fare
ct Loire department, where the nursing:
invariably die.
1t appears there are women among tho
nurses whose reputation is we'll known, aMc
horrcso rci5rcaS, these nurses are specially
sought for b. certain Ill famed houses
EntruSting newborn Infant 70 one Of them
is tantamount to ufanticidc DIR. BrocharC
read several copies Of the lying letters writ
ten by nurses to Tie cl,iIlrsa'> parents, de
scribing ia pathetic lau-uaGe tie ro>!
checks and Increasing charm, Ct the. in
Iauts, dead weeks before the cpis;lo va
inditcl.