New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-10
BROOKLYN NEWS.
TO SAVE THE BABIES.
DISTRIBUTION OF STERIL1zED MlLh
WILL BEGIN TO-DAY.

NATHAN srRAus DIRECTS THAT ONE THOUSAND
porr1Es BE SUPPLIED DAILY FOR BROOK
LYN-HoPE THAT PLANT MAY BE
ESTABLISHED IN THE BOROUGH
sterilized milk will be distributed to-day ana our
ing the entire heated term in Brooklyn. mere WIZ
be one thousand bottles distributed daily Na'ha"
Straus who is at present at Alexandrla Day "
the Thousand Islands, on Saturday instructed MS
renreson,a,ives TO begin the distribution OF the
milk M once Friends OF Mr.. Straus say that his
action is due to the report that there Is an eA-
cessve mortality In Brooklyn among chhoreh ui
der five years old The Health Board oihclals sta'u
some time ago that one of the contrioutory cause
toward the excessive mortality among children was
the use Of impure milk and they eXpresseu nv
hope that Mr.. Straus would. as he did year aeo'
distribute sterilized milk this season In BrooKlyh'
The milk will be given out from the diet hlcnens
at No q De Kalb-ave.. No $50 Sacket'-st.' NO. 80
Lorimer-st and No 80 sumner-aye The Ice p SSes
used in the various kitchens last season nay od
been taken OF storage ana put IN 1neH ,ost
places In addition to the four kitchens USED , i he
established in Dykmen-s. in the Twelith Mar o;
There will be another near the in'ersec"o" u
AiexSndeT L Kinkead manager Of the straSs
sterzed milk plant in Avenue n1nhy Of the
Health Board said thar Mr.. Straus had instructed
him TO distribute one thousand bottles OF S'e'''N'O
TIE distribution Of sterilized milk in Brooklyn
will according to the Health olnclhs, Sirai' NJ
crease The mortality among young children. Mr
Straus in a statement made some tn,e aso 'a ~
that after the establishment OF his plant on tle
Fast Side five year, ago, the death rate aI 1ne
percentage. The plant has a capaclty OF zen zen
thousand bottles day. and there is uetia,u i0 ~
seventy-ve hundred bottles REPRESENTATIVES M
Mr. Siraus will work In Brooklyn In cooperation
with the BROOKLYN Health Bureau
They believe that Brooklyn should nave PAM
Of It's own for the sterilization OF milk ana A.
Abraham of Abraham Straus. is Wiling 10 cor.
tribute 500 toward fund TOT me es'ao"9''"''' "
Under the administration Of Frederick w Wurs-
ter Mayor of the old city Of Brooklyn, {. I. MAI
tin chief engineer OF the BROOKLYN Brluse' e. 9ho
Iished a sterzed milk plant under one OF ,ne
Bridge arches the Brooklyn size OF xhe 'iS 90
That plant had a capacity Of from 2oW 10 800
bottles day and equipped for the Pasteu,lzza
one summer and was then abandoned steam lor
The plant was supplied from the Bridge polsel ;.
Ths nnnt did not pay II is believed that an efIort
will be made to add to MI Atra ennnnsd
Mr. Sraus discovered that many persons, W. %
unable 10 avail themselves of the Distribution OF
sterized milk because they had no zee anu nndIt,o
not therefore. keep the milk in good conu l,
He then decided 10 distribute ice among Pooi ialili
lies and the need Of ice among TIE Bro0kyn joor
will be brought to the attention OF phllah.ni ~
sterzed milk plant established mere. as ~ Etc., l.
alarmed at the excessive mortality among oauiea
The officials of the Board were grained yesterday
10 learn that the death list Of BABIES uhder ao S
vears old from diarrhpal diseases had decreased
somewhat The total of deaths reported on Satur-
dav was e. as against 90 on Friday:
The total number Of deaths OF cniidre 81. t t b
corresponding week last year. Deaths OF lnIanIs
under one year old for last week were 80 aRsInsi
2S3 for the corresponding week last xea,. I'D ~
all ages was Gil. decrease OF tWenty-hihe io"i
the corresponding week last year