The evening world., 1894-06-25
The Children Suffered Terribly Dur
Ing the Hot Spell.
No worthier Charity than the Sick
Babies Fund.
June's inferno Is over and her reign

June's inferno Is over and her reign
is nearly ended.
Instead of conhning 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 suky and petu-
.ant 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 unforgivable. 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, and heat-cnfeebled children at their
feet. trying to get little cool
air and revivifying sleep. on the
piers n the east and west end
of Thirty-fourth street the planks
we're impossible. The carts and
trucks In the neighborhoods were turned
into little dormitories, and children slept
on. under and all round them. In one
book of East Thrty-fourth street at 6
o'clock Sunday morning eleven babies
were being iulled to sleep on the sidewalk.
Some of the nurses were old grayhaired
women. feeble from age and worn by
the sitting heat OF their wretched homes.
During the week the mortality was
greatest among children. Summer com
plaint carried off eighty one. all under
i've years. only four adults died from
the fatal disease. OF the Sl deaths OF
'rhe total death rate was $685. and the
large increase over the previous week
was caused by diarrhoeal troubles;
There were 255 cases of diphtherla and
measles but nine proved fatal; one OF
the eighteen smallpox patients died; and
out OF no cases Of scarlet fever All b. but
eighteen A iMH
proved fatal. The unbcarable heat that
caused this loss OF life had an exhaustive
effect upon the sick Babies Fund. The
doctors were indefatigable. They went
the rounds OF misery's abode and gave
relief to hundreds
All those who were in town last week
suffered the rich as well as the desti-
tute, but those who live in comfort
suffered less than the poor whose homes
are deficient in the conveniences of
modern life. Hotel guests and residents
of private houses may have found 1t
Impossible to sleep, but fancy having to
spend the whole night on dock, ON
the housetop or the filthy pavement of
a public street. The police officers Or, on
densely populated sections OF the city
know how many families slept in the
street last week. but they won't tell.
II your subscription to the Sick Ba-
bies' Fund is not paid up please attend
to II as 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 worthier 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.