The evening world., 1891-08-14
WORK OF THE FREE DOCTORS.
Since June / They Have Made "a,
696 Visits to the Sick.

Wv Aoibo w eAAo SASAs
A little old woman came down from a suf-
folk street tenement-house yesterday drying
her eyes with the corner OF her apron.
She had Just finished " laying out " baby
for poor woman upstairs, and she carried In
her hands n roll OF white bandages and a
bottle, in which beef tea had been made.
Its the fourth little chin have tied up
this week." she said.
Sand may God help the rest, for I have
spent the Inst dollar"
/" What allied them3 The same as ailS all
OF them-bad air, dirty water, spoiled fruit
| and no care at ALL The mothers are too poor
| to stay at home and look after them; their
earnings pay the rent, and the rotting
peaches, green apples and penny bananas
which are easier to get than bread and milk
sicken the elder children and kill the babies.
Now you know what allied them. l have done
| all could. ! made beef-tea and took them
| hot milk, and sat with them on the roof till
they died, and sat with the corpses ut the
kitchen window till the dead man came and
took them away, and now my purse is empty.
| / am sick myself and can't do any more. And
so say, God help them"
| she emptied the Juiceless bits OF beef on the
pile that packed the garbage can, turned into
a narrow alleyway and was gone. Around
the corner, at the Intersection OF several
streets, one could SEQ the streamers OF ribbon
and Grape feebly nuttering from the sash
doors.
DR.. Eagle and his deputies OF health know
this locality. Not day passes that he does
not register in his black book the names OF
little ones for whom the fight has been fatal
though brief.
Look at the statistics for the three days
past.
Monday there were seventy deaths among
children under flve years OF age. Tuesday
the mortality was seventy eight and Wednes-
day 1t was eighty-three-241 In seventy-two
hours.
Now, isn't this hard luckH
What is worse, the death rate Is on the In
crease, and free doctors are In such demand
| that some OF them must succumb to overwork
II this hot weather continues.
Ali that can be done by THE EVENING
WORLD corps is being done, as the following
report by DR.. Foster will show;
Since June l, 54,6S6 visits have been made
In search OF sick children.
Four thousand four hundred and sixty-eight
patients have been treated, OF whom 676 were
sun,c,entIv s,cr tn reonire rensatad v,s,ts
s,x hundred and th,rteen apnl,cattons to,
re,,er have heen rece,ved 1ss NJ which wert
Tor ned,c,ne pprcbased nv tho nhvs,c,ans
o for nursing 40 for food nr,nc,norlv mill 10,
hoh,es p for rant ana tha balance for cloth.
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