The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-19
A LONDON HOBBY.


f)NpoN. April a=One of the latest medical
siltss discovered here Ia, perhaps. ono Of
q nYost excellent that could have been
United, and ita SUCCESS would go long
81 toward improving the physique of our
d. A worthy old doctor, whose SUCCESS In
profession has rendered him romparntive-
Sec TO indulge IN the luxury Of preventing
ase instead of taking heavy foos for blind
Dying to cure 1t, has adopted tho very
#ible idea that people in general pay far
" attention to the raising of hlooded
,es and other live stock than they do To
IN own babies and 80 he has attempted
Nnveral years to establish n "Model Nur-
a. Now, while he has had an undoubted
Asss in his general practice, such IA to
Ale him to some consideration. he has
III ii difficult TO interest sufficient mum
hf ladies Of rank and fashion, without
n as patronesscs his undertaking
hardly flourish. Possibly the
INs DANES may have been other
engrossed. or possibly they may
Aregardcd the scheme as clever project
6h part OF the doctors rather underbrod
Esh wife e. climb into good society on
poulders Of tho lady patronesses. at any
pho. matter long lanEuished. until the
hy doctor almost desparod. But, being
tigner himself, with no social AK to
his good sense, sincerity and perse-
fe had their reward. aud tho model
ahy was begun on Il limited scale. Tho
Ms idea was to establish an institution
3tfh women how 10 rear children. Now.
NIX ] hear some brisk. capable woman.
Aother of half II dozen healthy BOYS per-
Mairly explode with indignation ut the
ssht that any one let alone a nam could
mother how to bring up her babies
In than nature had taught her; but. new
ess, good mother. however scornfuIIv
Day scout the idea, the facts are against
Ito one can examine the mortality tables
world without being struck with horror
CHASTITY proportion of poor human
lhat shui,ies of this mortal coil
Il h&ving lived five short wears. Tho
In gives the following reasons for this
Ny mortality, which, In England
Ito very nearly 80 per cent of all in
fe1re they are five years old; he SAYS
at rate OF infants is So large because,
hey are the children of improvident,
Ute or drunken parents, or of people who
lind suffering from hereditary disease;
\ because mothers. and women in gen.
re ignorant of the practical and rational
cement OF babies, and their ignorance is
10y many physicians, especially young
floaers. who leave the schools of medi-
ltLNo education on this point, except
I'm ataount of instruction how to cure
f;Ashvent, disease: third. because so MANY
Tvs, for fashionable and other reasons,
II aIutSe tiltlt own Cnlluren, ana, fourth, |
q the care and management Of babies
Classes Of society are left to ignorant,
ienced and unintelligent persons. No
build establish training-far for
race horses, and employ only country
ms 70 take care of the animals: vet
aany kind Of an uneducated servant
Nequenty very Youthful-will be CON
quite lit to act as nurse-girl to !
at. 1t was to provide experienced, ed /,
nurses that the doctor desired to es- |
"a model nursery on the following plan:
i'd contain from six to twelve resident |.
l}ither orphans or those whose mothers
ot nurse them, who shall be reared on
principles: the minimum of 500 cubic |
air should be supplied to every infant |
most perfect ventilation should be |
4; in fact, ventilation, proper food and |
eanliness would be the principal de- I
l: In this school. mothers, nurses and |
Urls should be admitted, under com |
md experienced instructors, to learn
bring up their young charges in the |
st manner: and every woman SO in |
N, would be of inestimable value to !
tout her, not only in rearing her own |
II she had any, but IN teach