The evening world., 1894-06-11
They Tell the Hardships Of Help
less Little Ones.
A Baby Fed on Curdled Milk, Meat
and Beer.
Two Fevcr-Sick Children and No
One to Nurse Them.
The Sr Subscriptions.

| Mamie Cortissos Bayonne. n J.......... 1912
! Lady Harvard Aid Society 100
! Florence u. pes.nger brooklyn. N "" Ill
! All the neglected and abused children
OF New York are not In the public insti
tutiuns.
Hosts are In the cradle, and although
1t Is cruel thing to say 50, many are
being murdered by their own PEOPLE.
Vital statistics show that four out OF
five babies die before the fifth year This
does not surprise any one engaged In
tenement-house reform work. The won
der Is how any of the children OF the
Ignorant classes survive infancy. Here is
case, for instance. that an Evening
World" doctor worked very hard to save,
and II Is not cured yet: Little Midget"
lives over on the east side near the Uni
versity settlement.
Little Midget was sick-dangerously
sck-Gt least Aunt Mary said so and
she certainly ought 10 know. She has
been out nursing for the last three years.
Poor Midget had convulsions that tried
momentarily to shake the little life out
OF her tiny body. 1t was only case Of
ignorance, but of the fatal kind. The
ciild had been overfed. SO anxious was
the family to keep poor Midget full that
the time needed to clean the nursing
bottle was not spared. As soon as a
deficit was noticed In the contents some
BODY went f3r fresh supply and the
milk not only accumulated, but soured
the rest. To begin with, 1t was not the
sort OF food for the child any way, for
cows milk contains less sugar and more
albumenoids than human milk, and forms
in the stomach coagulate masses, which
the gastric juices dissolve with great
difficulty. There Is not much muscular
strength In baby's STOMACH, and instead
OF being digested the curds decomposed !;
germs OF putrefact!on that resulted pro-
duced Inflammation and caused the con-
vulsions
days the mother Informed me, and
something some % sold ''ea to s build ID spe up her her
strength
And so did. gave her a little
meat. And then John gave her few
drops of beer when he came home yes
terdny. and since she has had those
The little child was evidently simply
the victim OF her mothers ignorance.
! attended to her and gave the mother
some practical hints on diet for chill
dren and hygiene. Cases like this one
are incredibly plentiful, and this week
! spent portion of my time in explain
ing to the mothers what to give and
what not to give to their babies, In the
mean time l shall keep an eye on little
Midget. 1t is easier to put a stomach
out 1sr OF order than 1t Is to repair IT."
hardships endured by the children of
1T might well be called New York $
WyeeplnE. place; this gloomy rear alley.
walls had a voice, what stories OF suf-
ter.ng and struggles and death they
toud fo rsar tell bors This n alley Is the entrance
Is here that found the Lawlor fam
lily. They had lived here since last No
yember; when the husband and father
,i nied II was a most pitiful scene, those
appearance, the feverish moaning OF
the little boy in the bed and the pale,
worn mother, who, with tears in her
few glances We're sufficient to Indicate
to me that the child was suffering from
cercbro-spinal fever:
He He has been sick since Monday, but
could not call doctor as | have not
even got money to buy bread for the
other children said the poor mother.
when the woman was told that she
would get the doctor and medicines and
al that the other children needed, her
to kiss my haEds,"
One more special case" will serve
to remind the readers OF the needful
and almost sublime work their sub
scrlptions support.
Since my connection with The Even
Ing World medical staff It has been
children. All OF these little chance ac-
quaintances have been ninteresting-some
gay and happy and some intensely sad.
In German family encountered Ave
patients. The fiat was one of those
wretched habitations-all middle rooms
but the kitchen, and that looked at a
brick wall over damp courtyard.
baby mother and child We're suffer
Ing from colds and general debility; two
boys, aged six and eight years. were In
bed in the dark room with pneumonia
uhelr temperatures were l05 degrees and
io degrees when found them; to-day
family is appalling. Neighbors sent in
little portions of food and took turns
In watching the bronchitis patients.
paid woman who goes out nursing
TO look after them had the squalid
place disinfected and provided food and
treatment. Three are all right now, and
hope TO have the others convalescing
in a day or two"
There you are, gentle readers. More
than 1000 neglected children are being
or have been attended TO and saved
from their very best friends. Let the
good work go on without interruption
let the free doctors continue 10 hunt
up the cradle inmates and protect them
against the prescriptions OF well-mean-
ing but reckless aunts and parents; let
your favor swell the fund and your
sympathy and generosity save the lives
OF the sick poor
Only little subscript ions are asked for.
although no objections will be offered
TO hundred-dollar contributions.
Of the bes, and mos, heipfui anuniliari"s
of the Health Board" That is President
Wilson'S opinion OF the Sick Babies
Fund. NELL NELSON.
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