Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-08

The sufferings endured by many OF
babies who are intrusted to the care OF
servants would make the hearts OF mothers
ache II they realized how great they are.
1t is only necessary to spend an hour In
one of the popular squares of this city on
a pleasant day, or in Forsyth Park, to be
convinced that the baby coach, as manip-
ulated by the average nurse girl, Is an in
strument OF torture for babies. When
Dinah and Cufy-and Cuffy always man
ages to be around when Dinah takes the
children for an airing-get deeply inter-
ested in love making, or gossiping about
the affairs OF their masters and mistresses,
or discussing their church affairs, the
little one who occupies the baby coach
has TO look out for itself. 1t may have
the collie and 20 into commissions, but I'M
less 1t makes noise enoug to startle
policeman Dinah's attention will hardly
be drawn away from Cuffy. The baby
may be so placed as to receive the sun
full in It's face, or it may get into an ex-
tremely painful position, from which 1T
cannot extricate itself, but Dinah will not
permit herself to be disturbed long
enough to notice no W her charge Is getting
along.
OF course there are kind hearted and
honest nurses who take much better care of
the children intrusted to them than the
mothers of the children do, but they are
the exception and not the rule. 1t is safe
to say that the great majority of the
nurses have very little regard for the
comfort and pleasure OF the helpless little
ones committed to their care. Many
baby sent out in baby coach in charge
of nurse is brought home after few
hours absence suffering from an accident
Of some sort, due nine times out of ten to
carelessness, or from fever brought
on by exposure to the sun. 1t
would willingly sacrifice their own lives
to save those of their children should
send their babies to the streets and parks
with nurses of whom they know little or
nothing. 1t is not improbable that there
are instances in which the nurses, an
gered with their employers for some rea-
son or other, deliberately neglect their
duty to the babies.
The baby coach is to blame for much of
the suffering or the babies. If it were
not for this invention the nurses would
have to keep the babies in their arms, and
they could not very well neglect them.
The babies would be at home much more
OF the time and under their mothers eye.
In fact, it would be better any way for the
babies if the nurses were not permitted
to be pushing the baby coach so much Of
their time through the streets hunting for
somebody to gossip with.
The Annals of Hygiene for August has
an article against the use of baby car
riages on sanitary grounds, but there are
just as good reasons for not using them
in this city on humane grounds. The ar
ticle says that DIR. Henry II. Smith, OF
Philadelphia, has written very vehe-
men thy against the use of baby coaches;
and DR.. Maclagan, the medical officer of
the HeXham Rural Sanitary District, Eng
land, while calling attention to the fact
that in his district 1874 children out of 900
die during their first year, attributes much
of the mortality to inflammatory diseases
of :he brain and lungs, caused by exposure
in peramJulators- DR.. Taylor, OF Scar
borough, also lays much stress on the
matter of wind-pressure to which the per-
ambulator exposes children in the causa-
tlOn of diseases OF the throat and chest.
Which all goes to show that when children
are exposed to the weather they should be
in q more or less active state