The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-03
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The last week of Jun. 1894, was more
fatal to child life than the correspond
Ing week of the past five years.
In four days 523 little lives were
sacrificed. Summer complaint carried
off ISL babies and runabouts. Those
children wanted to live, they had a
right to live. and they would have lived
II they had had proper care. The
youngest pupil In the training school of
nursing knows that those pet lambs
were murdered-not Intentionally, per-
haps. but nevertheless murdered. Death
caused by carelessness or ignorance is
as criminal as death by violence. The
week before last the mortality among
children was 1851, and the fatal cases Of
Summer complaint numbered 81. showing
total increase Of l42, and an excess OF
100 In the dread disease. AS the weather
during the last week was not the most
trying of the month, the mothers stand
accused OF criminal neglect. Those 1sl
tots had gotten used to the heat: all
but the newborn babes were acclimated.
and the majority would have thriven II
they had been properly fed and kept
cool and clean. Their lives were worth
only a dollar Il week. but lacking the
price disease overpowered them. and
earth will know them no more.
Sadly enough those sweet little beings
belonged to the tenement house
population. OF the weeks NOR
tality. 81. the highest OF the
year. only III were private-house resi-
the hospitals, but death visited 65l tene-
ment- house homes and 523 helpless little
ones bore him company. This shows
that 1t Is not the adult. but the child.
and intelligent care. Give the baby the
elements of health and he will grow to
perfect manhood. A more eloquent ap-
peal for the Sick Babies Fund cannot
record of last weeks awful mortality.
There Is not n more worthy or practical
charity in existence than this fund. 1t
is pre-eminently the peoples charity.
The children of the poor are sought for,
and after administering to their comfort
such service AS the family needs is rem
dercd. There Is no catechising. no pry-
nS no Vensr an% nG sta
physicians don't care who the parents
are, where they came from or what con.
victions they may have on political and
religious subjects. The object of their
a,ling child. to ask permission to treat
him. to make the sick well, to keep the
well from getting Ill and to bring the
dying back to life. II no physician has
tie case In hand the doctor takes hold
OF 1t and does his honest. abest best
to save IT,
This Sick Babies Fund is a fresh air
fund, an ice fund, food fund, a cloth
ing fund and temporary relief fund
combined. 1t is distinctivcly a fund for
sick babies. Their little wants are
catered to- and as far as possible kim
bred sufferers are relieved. Proper
tional to the money and clothing sub
scribed are the distributions. Every
dime contributed does ten cents worth
of good, and every dollar does ten times
more. II the Fund amounts to $4,000,
the children of the city poor Will have
had $4,000 worth of benefit; from a
smaller total fewer benefits will acrue.
But THE Evening World Is figuring on
a different basis. In previous years the
support has been sufficient. This year
the circle of want IL wider than ever
before, and a bigger fund Is needed and
expected. The most encouraging sup
port has been extended during the past
month. and "A continuance Is all that Is
desired.
so far, 1920 sick visits have been
made by the STAFF doctors and b.43O lit
tie patients have been treated free OF
any expense, Those two facts tell the
story of the Sick Babies Fund work.
Send any small clothes suitable for
the season to Mrs. Roberts. 2eS East
Twenty-tirst street. and address money
letters to the cashier of The World. "
Live and lie; live is the moral of the true
MOI LIST