The San Francisco call., 1905-01-15
Gives His Time
As We'll as Coin
To the Proj ject
PERSONALLY IN ATTENDANCE
To Relieve the LoWly Sick
the LifeWork of the
French Noble.

structions to his assistants. Gifts of
medicines always go with the advice;
and in frequent cases, wines, bouillons
and dainties follow.
His work done, the Baron strips off
his blouse, jumps into the automobile
awaiting him at the door, and speeds
away, the wealthy Rothschild once
again, to attend to his worldly duties
or to indulge in his favorite sport, au-
tomobiling. And yet. throughout the
day, the memory of his poor seems to
remain with him.
Born rich and having recently in
herited vast fortune from his aunt.
the Baronne Nathaniel de Rothschild,
the Baron Henri is nevertheless sim
plicity itself in his tastes. In a fine
and magnificently furnished residence
between the British Embassy and the
Palace of the Elysee in the Faubourg
ST. Honore, he lives unostentatiously.
Automobiiing is perhaps his only ex-
travagance. His races with w. K.
Vanderbilt Jr, who is an intimate
friend of his, brought him to fame as a
chauffeur a few years ago, and he has
since run in numerous long-distance
races, generally taking an assumed
name to avoid notoriety. He ran in
the Paris-Vienna race as Doctor Pas
cal, the title of cne of ZoIa s novels.
SPECIAL CARE FOR BABIES.
The subject which has interested the
Baron most in his professional studies.
and that which he has made the spe-
cialty of his hospital, is infantile dis
orders. Welcome as are all the suf
farino q hrin N Gicl,
baby is always given a particularly
warm greeting. In fact, the Baron
takes this department SO deeply to
heart, and is so convinced that through
1t vast service can be rendered to
coming generations, that he goes to the
point of offering rewards to mothers
for bringing their babies regularly to
be inspected. Every baby on the hos
pital lists is supposed to be presented
each Wednesday to be weighed, and
the mothers who have observed this
regulation receive gifts of provisions
which encourage them to continue.
Only when baby is in perfect health,
which does not happen frequently ow-
ing to the deplorable conditions of ex-
istence for the working classes in the
Montmartre district, is the strict watch
relinquished. Should the state of the
baby grow worse, and should it become
evident that the care of the mother is
inadequate even when helped with ad-
vice, medicines are furnished, and if
need be sterilized milk. Then the baby
is taken to the hospital itself. The
Baron only does this in extreme cases.
for he believes it more useful to teach
mothers to care for their children, and
he often sends out his physicians to-
visit children at home and make sure
that the instructions are being fol-
lowed
But when the baby must enter the
hospital he finds everything that can
contribute to his health and happiness
Thirty beds and incubators, trained
nurses and house physicians, the best
sterilized milk prepared on the prem
ises and such simple medicines as he
can take are there awaiting him. At
no other hospital in Paris are such ac-
commodations offered for babies under
a year old. In fact, infants are re-
fused admittance to all the city hos
pitals save the maternity hospitals,
and even there they are supposed to be
accompanied by i'll mothers.