The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-12
The Free Doctors Are Doing Their
Best for the Tots.
The Subscriptions.

Those people who write letters to the
newspapers pleading for the birds"
should not forget the babies. The death
rate Is going up, and the children OF the
poor are going down to untimely graves.
Last week the clty's mortality reached
97s. an increase of sixty-two compared
with the record OF the corresponding
week of 1893. Only los deaths occurred
in private residences: the lanes OF pow
erty and the wards OF charity hospitals
contributed the others.
As during the past two weeks, the
greatest mortality was due to diarrhoeal
troubles, which sacrificed 227 babies.
The total loss OF child life during the
week from all diseases numbered 63s.
And yet well-meaning women plead for
the birds OF New York"
The fatal trouble with the children is
neglect. What they need Is care-a few
ounces of good food suitable to their
constitutions. q couple OF baths, a cou-
pie OF suits OF clean clothes and good
place to sleep. Given those conditions
daily for a few years. the average child
may be expected to overcom even the
curses OF heredity." More little people
died last week from poisonous food, bad
air and neglect than the child popula-
ton OF the whole Of Murray Hill. City
life had nothing to do with their extinc-
ton. New York Is one of the healthiest
cities in the world. Unfortunately
there are uninha bitable houses. where
people are herded like dumb cattle, and
where only the stoutest and strongest
manage to live.
An Illustration OF the wholesome
ness OF New York as a Summer resort
may be found up in Thirty-fourth street
a few hundred feet from Broadway, with
its roar of surface and Elevated traffic.
About 8 o'clock in the morning a
small carriage with a silk umbrella and
lace befrilled cushions rolls out OF a big
woman, dressed In gingham, and the
occupant Is a bit OF mortality with blue
eyes, delicate pink cheeks and no hair
jolly Migrants follow the sun from one
side OF the square 10 the other. coauette
with the street-sprinkling-c carts and APP
propriate front-door steps They are no
The Hiltons, the Clewes. the Loomises,
the Aspinwalls. the famous Manhattan
Club and the Aston estates invite maid
time. Every hour or two the pair $50
In for refreshment," but they are sell
dom gone over thirty minutes. The
baby's folks have been obliged to remain
In town all Summer. but his little high
ness has suffered no Inconvenience. He
hasn't had moments illness. nor any
thing at all to eat. He In very hard
drinker, though. Often his bills run up
to cents day. He gets fatter, prettier
and saucier every week.
If the poor tots in the crowded neigh
borhoods OF the east side had half
the care this sweet little street baby
gets, they wouldn't die as they are dy-
ing, at the rate of ninety a day. The
Evening World" doctors do their ut
most to have the fund patients kept in
the street, but II Is often advice thrown
away. The poor parents have many eX-
cuses-all good, but deplorahle. moth
child cannot perform II out OF doors
indeed there Is no time for anything
else. and II her baby lives the doctor
deserves credit and gives II to the Sick
Babies Fund. of which he is an in
strument. NELL NELSON.