The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-22
BABKR41sING EXTRAORDINARY.

The Hospital Dom OF Moscow-An Army
of Babies-Babies Hatched by Ma.
ehinery-What Becomes Of the Found
lings.
Fourteen thousand babies
That Is just the number of babies they had
In 1867 in the great Hospital Dom, In Moscow.
Where did they come from
Well, they came mostly from the City of
Moscow. Some of them We, foundlings,
some were the offspring of naval and military
officers, and many belonged to the merchants
and tradespeople OF the city. This great baby
great baby-raisiDg machine. If man is q
fowl land many men are foul,) as Dlogenes
says, then this hospital Is the great national
chicken-hatcher for the Russian Empire.
BABY MANAGEMENT.
This great baby hospital Is managed thus: The
hospital Is divided into, perhaps, fifty wards.
One ward with competent physicians and
nurses will take care of babies one and two
and three days old-foundlings.
will care for all the babies perhaps one hun
dred, from three days to q week old.
In another ward will be all the babies from
one week to two weeks old; Ia another those
from two weeks to a month old; In another
those from one month to two months; IN
another those from two months to tour
months; and so on till one ward will take
charge of children ten years old.
SICK BABIES.
There Is one ward especially devoted to
babies with 'scald head" Another ward takes
sore-eyed babies; another malformations;
another babies diseased through paternal sins.
Each of these sick wards has one constant ply
sician. who makes the disease of bis ward a
speciality. If 1t is the ward for sore.eyed
babies, then the physician Is posted on that
disease. he has doctored babies with sore
phase of the disease. Besides being skiltully
Educated as an oculist, he has the experience
of years-all the time doctorlng sore-eyed
babies, What wonder that he becomes prof.
Gent and that he should know constantly
what to do with any difficult case Of sore eyes,
sicaus who had not made that particular
disease specially.
40 in the other sick wards, there were phys-
clans who looked after scald head, and made
II a specially. For years this physician had
attended thousands and thousands of cases
of sore head. He had seen the disease 10
every form, except the symptoms p Of poliicsSd, cSd
of Mr.. Greeley, Mr.. Chase, Mr.. Frank Blair,
Mr.. wendell Phillips. and among American po.
ltIcal babies, Mr.. waterbury and the Young
Democracy, who want new deal In the city,
and the Young Republicans, who want new
deal among the customhouse and postoffice.
WHEN THE BABIES CONE
they enter at the general ONCE. The clerk
| takes It's name, ties little silver check about
its neck, and hands the duplicate to Its mother.
| II the baby's check Is 942 then the mother
when she wants to see 1t, calls, hands ln hel
check 942, and the baby with the corresponds
| ing check is produced.
As soon as the body Is In possession OF the
hospital officers, 1t is baptized and sent to lib
| respective ward.
The uurses-we healthy coun.
| trywomen, the wives OF ex-serfs (Mosheks.)
The diet of these women is 30 selected that
they shall produce large quantities OF health
ofteutlmes Immense. Their dress waists are
always above their bosoms, which gives then
| a very singular appearance. They are larger
at the waist than at the shoulder.
TREATMENT OF BABIES.
The babies are fed, washed and dressed with
the utmost regularity. Each nurse In WARD
| has specific duty to perform. Take the warc
having the week-oid babies One nurse will dC
nothing, from morning till night, but undress
babies; another nurse Will plunge them undel
streams Of warm water and wash them; an
other will dress them up and TOSS tnem away
| while another will follow and nurse them. 81
they 90, up and down the sides Of the ward
each baby being washed, nursed and dressed
certain number of times each day. The littl'
thing learns to like Its treatment. Sometime
the nurses give them toss of several fee
| Into the beds, or from one woman to another
and the little thing will laugh and screw up th'
| funniest smiles.
like an Indian baby and laiG away. Thei
hands, arms, legs are all wound up with strip
of linen cloth. This is the only criticism
could offer against their treatment Of babies
| this plnioning their hands and feet
Many good respectable mothers whose hus
bands are In the army or navy, or even well
to-do tradesmep, send their offspring here Il
be cared for. The treatment is 80 superio
that by far fewer babies die than would die
| left to the best care Of fond mother.
HATCH1NG BABIES.
Yes, Matching babies There is q fuun.
machine here for Matching prematurely-b
children. Little "wee bIts' of babies, whose
mothers have to give them up at the age o
six, seven, or eight months, are here caret
for In q manner go nearly like nature that tn
baby never knows 1t Is born at all. It |
rolled up In downy swaddllng clothes and KEEP
In dark place warm with steam, and thes
great, rough-bearded men act to 1t like
mother. Many of these unfortunate littl
things which come Into the world prema
turely, through great convulsions and fright
like the Chicago fire, are thus made to live
By-and-by, when they are old enough, the
are brought out to the light. and the anxiou
mother calls, hands In her check, and sees TO
the first time her poor little unfortunate baby
smiling. tat, and happy. Heavens, wha
transport of delight some of these mothers
show! They seize the little angels, pres
them to their bosoms, and cry to God a praye
of happiness.
WHAT BECOMES OF THE BABIES.
This is hard question. Those belonging t
the well-to-do merchant class are taken hom'
as soon as the dangerous period is passed.
The cast-away are trained up by the govern
ment-the males becoming officers In tn
army and navy 20, Fifth avenue Bellies y ant
the females becoming actresses and assistant
In choruses In the great theatres. Some be
come the wives of prests-all drifting Int,
social circles above the ex-serfs. One OF tn
most agreeable officers l met In Moscow wa
a captain OF Infantry. who was once mother
less founding. [Ei Perkins in the Ne,
York Commercial AduertlSer.l