New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-18
Rejoicing INFANT MORTALITY.
HOW SICK BABIES ARE HELPED AND POOR
MOTHERS STRENGTHENED.

There is nothing that appeals more directly N
human sympathy than a sick and helpless infant"
said 'ir Dupuy. Of the Childrens Aid Society yes
terd&y. Notwithstanding all the earnest en-
beavers to diminish sickness among the Youngest
children during the summer months there ara
thousands OF Infants In the crowded wards OF the
city who require to be taken from their tenement
homes and transferred for a short time az least
to purer atmosphere II their lives are TO be
saved
The Chdren's Aid Society has made heroic
efforts this summer to mitigate 70 as large an
extent as Its finances would permit the sad
condition OF this helpless class The Health
Home. at Coney Island, has opened It's doors 10
more than two thousand sick babies and their
nothers. many of whom have remained for a week
while still others have been taken for n day or
two, as the condition Of the child required The
benefit the children derive from this long breath
OF nvigoratins ocean air is greater than be de-
scribed Many OF the poor mothers who seem
upon their arrival with their little ones at the
home almost Incapable Of further effort have
after but brief period of rest indcat ted BY both
word and action how greatly they have been re-
freshed. There are many hundreds, both children
ana mothers whose lives would be prolonged
could they be removed from their city rooms and
taken 10 the Health Home.
THE society is ready to continue this iife-saving
work its appliances are ample. its corps OF
sistants is made up Of trained and efficient per-
sons whose kind hearts and willing hands are
waiting to minister TO the needy. But to maintain
the work on such a scale encouragement and as
sstance from the benevolent and well-to-do are
necessary and without financial aid the work
not be continued.
While such numbers Of persons are suffering
ills to which the more fortunate are strangers. It
seems almost a calamity that such humane
work should he crippled for lack of sufficient sup
port. Among those who spent week at the
Health Home was poor mother with her two
little children. She came to this city from the
country twenty years ago. and from that time she
had never left the town FOR an hour until the
happy morning when she found herself looking
out over the waters which roll In upon the sand
IN front OF the home. Sitting the covered pier
which extends out from the beach. and against
which the surf beats continually. she gazed one
entranced upon the striking and ever-changlng
pSrorama moving before her. and at last ex-
Gained. apparently foryetfu fhat there
others near her
"'Wl heaven be more beautiful than this?
The poor, tired discouraged mother had voiced
1t were. from the tumut foulness and squalor OF
her tenement home, here We're rest and sweetness
above her the blue sky. about her the COOL delicious
atmosphere. and before her expanse of water.
All WAS so new. so restfu and so in contrast with
what she had known during the long twenty years
spent I'm the crowded city that her lips could
but express the JOY which for the moment thrilled
within her bosom
'ro bring 10 others. of whom this is an
example. little brightness. TO alleviate If but
temporarily the suffering they endure during the
hot moist days 90 summer IS the earnest desire
OF tho managers Of the rhildren's Aid Society
The appeal Is made 70 those who I'm the face
OF the liite babe the Image Of its Maker. and
who would gladly assuage It's misery and thus
aid I'm diminishing infantile mortality
Cheeks may be sent 10 the secretary e. Loring
Brace No 25 East Twenty-second-st United
Charities Building"