The evening world., 1894-06-25
The Children Suffered Terribly Dur
Ing the Hot Spell.
No Worthier Charity than the Sick
Babies Fund.
The subscriptions.

June's inferno is over and her reign
is nearly ended.
Instead OF confninR her talents to rose
blooming, fruit painting and school clos
ing, she tried her very best to set the
earth on fire. She behaved very badly
on her arrival she was sulky and petu-
.ah the following week. and there has
been no getting along with her the last
four days.
The way she treated the poor babies
OF New York was unforgvable. The
week before 1t was pad enough but last
week they fought for their lives. and
3a fought In vain.
Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights
the piers were public nurseries. Anx-
ious women sat along the stringpieces
all night long with gasping babies in their
laps. AMI heat-enfeebled children at their
feet. trying to get little cool
air and revivlfying sleep. on the
piers n the east and west end
of Thrtyfourth street the planks
were impossible. The carts and
trucks In the neighbour Jods were turned
into little dornltories. and children slept
on. under and all round them. la one
block of East Tnirty-fourth street at 6
o'clock Sunday morning eleven babies
we're being lul!ed to sleep on the side
some Of the nurses were old gray-hlired
women, feeble from age and worn by
the Sitting heat of their wretchel homes.
During the week the mortality was
greatest among children. Summer com
five years. Only four adults died from
the fatal disease. OF the 3si deaths of
young children 25S were babies in arms.
.fhe tots, death rate was s2j. and the
In h. t.attu
was Caused by diarrhoeal troubles
There were 255 cases OF dlphtheria and
only fifty were lost. OF III cases Of
measles but nine proved fatal; one OF
the eighteen smallpox patients died. and
out OF 10 cases OF scarlet fever all but
eighteen recovered. All the eighty-hve
cases of Summer complaint reported
proved fatal. The unbearable heat that
caused this loss of life had an exhaustive
effect upon the Sick Babies Fund. The
doctors were. indefatigable. They, went
ths rounds q misery's abode and gave
relief to hundreds.
All those, who were in town last week
suffered. the rich as well as the destl
tute, but those who live in comfort
are deficient in the conven fences Of
modern life. Hotel guests and residents
or private houses may nave found 1t
impossible to sleep, but fancy having to
spend the whole night on a dock, on
the housetop or the filthy pavement of
a public street. The police officers on
duty along the river edge and In the
Iensely populated sections OF the city
know how many families slept in the
street last week, but they won't tell.
If your subscription to the Sick Ba-
bes Fund is not paid UP please attend
to II az soon as possible. Send all the
little clothes and nursery supplies not
In use to Mrs. Roberts, 22S East Twen-
ty-tirst street. She knows where they
will be appreciated at their real value.
Address the letter to the cashier. and
let 1t contain all the small change that
can be spared
There Is not a worthler cause than
the life and health OF the children OF
the poor In the realm OF humanity. The
fund has saved one and promoted the
other, and with the cooperation and
assistance OF The Evening World"
readers, will continue to do so.
Help the Sick Babies Fund, and the
fund will make them well babies.