The evening world., 1894-07-03

The last week of June. lS"i, was more
fatal 10 child life than IN" correspond
Ing week of the past five vars.
In four days 5-3 little lives were
sacrificed. Summer complaint carried
OF ISL babies and runabouts. Those
children wanted to I've: they had
right to live, and they would have lived
II they had had proper care. The
youngesi pupil in the training school of
nursing knows that those pet lambs
were murdered-not Intentionally. per-
haps. but nevertheless murdered. Death
caused by carecssness or ignorance is
as criminal as death by violence. The
week before last the mortality among
children was Isl. and the fatal cases of
Summer complaint numbered 81, showing
IL total increase of 142, 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 l8l
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 dollar n week. but lacking the
price disease overpowered them. and
earth will know them no more,
Sadly enough those sweet little beings
population. or the weeks NOR
talty, J7l, the highest of the
year, only III were private-house resi-
dents. There were 200 funerals from
the hospitals, but death visited 651 tene
ment-house homes and 523 helpless little
ones bore him company. This shows
that 1t IL not the adult, but the child.
who needs the homage OF love. sympathy
and intelligent care Give the baby the
elements OF health and he will grow to
perfect manhood. A more eloquent APP
Zeal for the Sick Babies Fund cannot
be offered than Registrar DR., Nasle's
record Of last weeks awful mortality:
There Is not II more worthy or practical
charity in existence than this fund. 1t
Is pre-eminently the people charity.
The children OF the poor are sought for.
and after administering to their tom.ort
such service as the family needs Is r.n-
dercd. There Is no catechising no pry-
Ing into private arairs and no class dis
physicians don't care who the parents
are, where they came from or what con-
victlons 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 i'll 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, ablest best
to save II.
This Sick Babies Fund Is a fresh-air
fund. an Ice fund, food fund, cloth,
ing fund and Il temporary relief fund
combined. 1t Ia distinctively a fund for
sick babies. Their little wants are
catered to. and as far as possible kin
dred 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 Il
smaller total fewer benefits will acrue.
But THE Evening World" is figuring on
u different basis In previous years the
support has been sufficient. This year
the circle of want Is wider than ever
before. and II bigger fund IL needed and
expected. The most encouraging sup
port has been extended during the past
month and continuance Is all that Is
desired.
So far, 10. go sick visits have been
made by the stan doctors. and $3.50 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 - Mre. Roberts, 22S East
Twenty-irst street. and address money
letters to the cashier of The World"
Live and let live is the moral of the true
mn