The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-10
WE'VE HAD ENOUGH.

ception room a few moments. while
the doctor sees a visitor. In the hall
way 1 hear the rustic of silk and the
sound of a woman'S voice, as fresh as
a sea breeze.
She makes inquiries concerning the
patients and the babies, and there is a
perfume of country flowers. The front
door opens and closes, while some one
remarks. THAT was Mrs. Sloane her
self. She personally supervises the
hospital
L regretted missing the sight of the
| face of this gracious woman. 1t must
be as full of loneliness and happiness
as her great heart is of charity.
1.-THE institution is prepared to &C
commodates forty-five patients at a
time, but often cares for fifty" began
my guide, as we reached the landing
and crossed the marble floor of this
upper hall, and entered the most per-
feet operating room the Imagination
could picture.
The room was entirely fitted in white
marole, both floor and dado, with hard
finished wall above. A broad window
to the left. a snowy table couch in the
center. furnished with sheets, coverlet
and pillow, for the patient, by its side;
a table made of many trays of glass,
supported by four white legs; sails
painted white set against the marble
dado: white closet and shelves con-
tanned towels, instruments and appli-
ances. A patient is delivered here,
and then placed on a stretcher and
taken to the cot assigned her in the
ward. Her infant is taken directly to
| the nursery.
The sunny corner is devoted to the
patients ward Here are pleasant
clean-looking women, reading, chatting
and nursing their babies. Among them
was one colored patient, the average
per cent in these institutions. A vase
of country flowers stood on a table
| by one of the broad windows; they
seemed remembrance of the woman
who had called
Next came the nursery-we were
greeted with a wall as the door
opened
I'VE have had six babies born in the
i last twelve hours, and they always cry
at first to exercise their lungs"
BABIES BY THE WHOLESALE
Two nurses in spotless frocks of blue
bingham, with kerchiefs and aprons of
muslin, arose to greet us as the physi-
clan spoke. Each held tiny new
! born tot. One of them handed the ply
stefan her infant She looked an ideal
| foster mother. with kindly eyes and a
wealth of light hair tinged with grey,
that suggested sufficient maturity to
yield tenderness and sympathy.
The physician rubbed the palm of his
big soft hand over the babes head
holding it with the other This is
the way to soothe a little baby" he
said; then turning it over he admin
istered a queer little Jack in the box
jerk, and the eyelids flew up, and
sleepy eyes and a yawn greeted the
kindly doctor. He handled the little
thing so firmly and gently, with secur-
Iity and tenderness. Cots placed side
wise against the wall about the room,
and besides these, two more stood in
the center of the room. Each cot held
a row of five or more babies, each little
head pillowed against its own tiny pill
low. and each little body shielded with
its own little sheet and tiny blanket
summer weight. The first glance at
these rows of tiny pink heads might
suggest rosebuds, but that would be
lidealizing; they looked far more like
radishes in row, freshly plucked from
a garden, with a brush of earth upon
them, indicating baby hair.
A colored baby. a tiny "pick-a-
ininny," counted one i'll "a row, and
the physician told me that at this
early state in its existence they were
always quite as pink as the rest, and
lcould only be distinguished by their
hair.
Another premature baby was in a
state of incubation, all done up in
indicated cotton. Each child wore a
little ticket, or tag, upon which was
written its number, indicating the num-
Der of its mothers cot, whittier each
one is taken every two hours to nurse
The little tags exactly initiated those
found on newly purchased umbrellas
or upon ready-made' clothing
THE EXTENT OF THE WORK.
1--WE care for one thousand patients
a year. All we require is that she be
in labor to receive her. IF notified in
advance of patients cor .ition we ask
that she will provide one suit Of baby
clothes to take her baby away In AS
to the moral of it all, we have both
single and married women in about
equal proportion. We do not attempt
to lecture them--it seems a moor time
when a woman is in the pain and peril
iof childbirth. Maternity should teach