The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-18
sIx nUNDRED hAnIhs YACCINArkp,
And "A Whole StreetfuII of Babies Turned
AWnY In Dlaappolntment.

And "A Whole StreetfuII OF Babies Turned
Away In disappointment.
Six hundred babies were vaccinated at tho
Bureau OF Contagious Diseases yesterday.
Four doctors worked from o'clock In the
morning until o'clock in the afternoon. and a
whole streetfull Of babies finally went home
without getting chance to have their arms
scraped. Mulberry street, between Blocker
and Houston. was crowded with babies all day.
and from tho modest brick building near Police
Headquarters over which DR.. Cyrus Edison
rules came continuous chorus OF walls aud
screams that would have scared the Inhabitants
OF any thoroughfare less accustomed to sur
prises than Mulberry street. Yesterday was
tho second Saturday this spring that babies
have hocked to DR.. Edson's headquarters to be
vaccinated. and every other saturday until the
middle or end of June will see enacted the
same scenes OF lnfantile woe.
The custom Of devoting spring time Satur-
DAYS to vaccnating babies In the Health De-
partment rooms was established years ago.
spTpS TO e ROUNDS Of the ds
tric.s and vaccinate every one from the head OF
the family down VINO T sVG wa 9 tn9
very early. The mothers OF very young chill
dren were suspicious Of these visiting physi-
the Health Department They got the Idea in
some way that such vaccinations were per-
thing done right it was necessary TO take their
babies to headquarters in person.
On T9E tb NO. 5 BABIES Of aTe
CAMS was much greater and many were turned
away. The parents Of most OF the babies were
Polish Jews. Nearly all the babies came in the
arms OF fond mothers. a few were. trundled
up In baby carriages. Fathers with bushy
boards were numerous. some nag s GONE with
witness the grave operation on baby. Other
fathers carried the babies themselves while
md
There was a good-si2ed crowd In front OF the
little brick house in the, morning o half
entire day the crowd scarcely, lessened, aud in
the afternoon 'hrOngs OF mothers and fathers
with babies ramS from every f dEEeei rect until
WAS hardly pasSRbe. IYerybody was in more
or less Of holiday costume. aud the, babies.
clean dresses of white with no end OF trim
ming and embroidery, Many OF tho babies.
too, wore brilliant, rod aud 9iqe WRAPS; like
scant hair and bright metal bracelets around
their chubby wrists. II was ga, street full at
we're italian mothers with brilliant purple and
scarlet dresses and heavy stri nRs Of imitation
pearls around their PLUMP hgGkS Children q all
tumbied and played on the, sidewalk and IN the
street. and innumerabIe babies b,s with chubby
screamed and cried as the mood prompted,
One awk ward father with ragged black beard
Gna bo oaHy ON witch he was Sany &S6e
handle. and spilled the milk all over she side
walk and mothers and babies and children
were continually tumbling over baby carriages
in their haste to crowd into the vaccination
room. They entered the main door and came
out through the basement The crowd was
made much the bigger and moro unmanage-
able because those theirs who came out with
WecplnC babirs with big red vaccination marks
on their aims persisted In standing on the
sidewalk for hours afterward to compare
babies instead OF going home rs they were eX-
Dn,' John Schnell and A. V. Brailly did the
vaoclnalng in the afternoon In the two rooms
on the main floor They sat at desks near tho
front windows, and tho mothers aud fathers.
with their babies. were admitted through the
back room, and formed a line to the doctors
tables. A burly policeman tried to keep order
against tho most appa Ing odds for the moth
ers, many Of whom had been waiting for hours,
the united waiting OF a hundred babies made ii
hard for the pol tComan t. make his orders
hear Each mother gave hor bGbys name TO
an official as she entered the room and barred
the babJ chubby LEFT arm, Each baby, rs il
sat before the doctor, looked w nj him with
wondering eyes, AS the sharp needle
scratched tho skI" GGo"ps9r an, AMI doGGHera
Its face would wrinkle up, and presently It
would break Into the most dolelul cries. Many
of the mothers lips quivered as the sharp
needle cut deeper, and some cried lust little |
Tho doctors did not take more
than q minute to vaccinate baby. Then they |
tors in German ana English about how the
baby should he trented. ana an order 10 return |
10 week and Gei a certificate II tho yaccina;
tlon had then taken" II the vaccinaiirn did !
no. 'take.' baby has 10 undergo tho orriblo
O. dcai again.