The evening world., 1894-05-17
SICK BABIES FUND.-.
A Movement to Help the Help
less Poor of the City.
It Is Recommended 10 the Suffragisis
by a Charity Commissioner.
Child Health and Child Life De-
stroycd by Ignorant Nurses.

Hair the sickness md 80 per cent. Of
the deaths among the babies of the poor
are due to improper nourishment.
Gertrude Athcrton said, In n recent
contribution to suffrage literature: The
average mother Is a fool a collector
OF vital statistics who is preparing n
report for the County Medical Society
on THE Increase OF Infant Mortality"
says: Mrs Anterior Is mistaken; the
average mother Is a criminal, who muir
dcrs the health of the children she does
not kill. BAD foods. which the delicate
organs cannot digest, produce convul-
sions, and the child dies. Meat, sips
of tea end coffee, diseased milk, bread
and bananas, the staple fruit. are the
weapons IN the lands Of ignorant moth
ers that kill more children the second
Summer and every Summer than all
the teething and diseases combined"
A member OF the Commission of Chart
ties and Correction refused to sign the
petition for equal righ.s. When asked
why he objected he said:
"Because public spiritci women of intel
right thing by their ignorant and help
less sisters. Men don't want to he. ele-
waited. They can look out for them;
selves. 1t is the infant citizen. the enid
waiting and improving. lie favored any
movement that might be made for better
homes, better health and better care of
the little folks, and thought that the
WORLD WAS as good an example as the
restless women could follow He, spoke
OF the abandoned and ''committed' hill
dren, OF the babies who went barefoot
..1 an ,lnl tlsAH,rh infnrny' nf the
cooking that poisoned whole families ana
helped to make invalids and d~runkards,
and the utter helplossncss OF young
mothers graduated from shops and fac
tories.
THE very help that our poor women
need most" the Sick Babies Fund has
been giving for the last six Summers.
tions of The Evening World readers,
have gone the rounds of misery and in
the kindliest way volunteered their
weak protected from disease, the needy
assisted and the dcsponlent encouraged.
This programme is, stu In operation
and Will be followed until the Fall. a
big fun will he raised, for all the old
friends of the sick babies and thousands
of new ones are expected to subscribe,
each dollar or a dime; preparations
are being made to supply the des-
titute with good milk, comfortable cloth
ing and medicine, and in the house to
house visits OF the doctors not hundreds
but thousands of tots will be prevented
from getting sick.
A case found yesterday by one of the
star physicians shows the need OF this
benevolent newspaper work.
1.-The most p!tiful case I saw said
the doctor. was on Thirty-ninth street.
For six weeks n mother has been iii
with rheumatism, unable to move, and
both hands bandagod. The father has
been out Of work the greater part of
the Winter, but now Is employed during
the day and at night dcvotes himself
to his pale. thin. suffering wife and tc
his four children, nearly all Of whom
are helpless. He cooks the meals. keeps
the house In order t3 and does the best
he can to give the necessary care to The
children. Needless to say they suffer
some neglect: one has bronchitis and
another coniunctivitls. which Is receiv'
Ing no care beyond an occasional doubt.
ful cleansing. The poor mother looks
on 1t all in a most pathetic way, suffer.
ing more mentally from her inability
to minister to her denr ones than from
the, rheumatic pains that torture he
body"
Address all letters containing none,
to the Cashier Of THE World" n no
only this. but all cases like 1t, found b,
the free doctors will be relieved.