The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-07-28
CHOLERA INFANIUM
IN SOUTH CHICAGO
More Than Half Hundred
Babies Suffering With
Summer Malady.
NURSES AID SICK
Any Family Can Have a Home Made
Ice Box for Less Than
Twenty Cents.

At the present time there are over
fifty cases of cholera infantum among
the babies in South Chicago and of this
number six are liable to die at any
time In an interview with one of the
nurses from the Visiting Nurses asso-
citation yesterday she stated that five
were under her care this week and
two of them were on the verge of
death but, of course. there was chance
o. them pulling through all right.
The Visiting Nurses association is an
association composed of competent
nurses who. after graduating from
nurses school serve their time among
the poor in the various parts of the
city, services being free to those who
are unable to pay and for those that
are, their charges are much cheaper
than those of a professional nurse.
The association has had representa-
tive in South Chicago for the last
three years and during that time they
are to have saved the lives of over
| five hundred little children.
Last week one of the nurses was call
ed to the home of John Frankowski
j11011 Terrence avenue, where their lit
tie baby, John jr., one year old, was
/
prompt work upon the part Of the
nurse the little childs life was saved.
and today the baby is reported as be
ing well on the way to recovery. 9th
er similar instances are cited daily by
the members of "Chicago's most useful
association"
Recently the South End Center. the
local settlement house gave out notices
no ric11 81 r
specially prepared to those having
small children at the rate of one cent
per bottle, since this announcement was
made there has been an enormous de-
mand for this milk from the parents
of small babies through the ward.
The milk is kept on ice at the set
Element house and is specially prepared
according to the age of the child. The
manag gers of the settlement house do
not make any profit on the milk, doing
it merely to aid in keeping the children
healthy during the hot summer months
Most cases of sickness which is laid
to impure milk comes from feeding the
babies soured milk, said one of the
nurses yesterday. A home made ice
box can be built at a cost of from
% to so cents. This home made ice
box will fill a long felt want of those
who are poor and unable to buy one o1
the larger sizes. one OF these small ice
boxes will keep a bottle of milk sweet
for over forty hours at a cost of less
than five cents, so there seems nc
reason why every mother should not
avail herself of the opportunity to hell
preserve the life of her baby
Home Made Ice Box
| A description Of the home made re-
frigerator was given the last issue O.
the American Medical Journal. and III,
following instructions will give any
one an idea Of how ii is built.
! IAN ordinary box secured from you
grocer, 1Sx13 inches, with a depth o
= y inches In the bottom of the boz
on this set a tin pail or can. s inche
in diameter and high enough to hold
quart bottle of milk Care should b.
taken that the pail rests on the saw
dust and not on the wooden bottom o
the box.
Around the top of the pail place
cylinder of tin. a little larger than tn
/ pail. then pack saw dust around tn
= cylinder-not between the pail anC
cylinder Under the cover Of the bo
e nail about fifty layers of newspaper
. Set the milk bottle in the center of tn
pail and pack 1t with ice.
The cost in operating this little re
frigerator is said to be less than tw
cents, which is based from actual op
Grafton by a family
u The Chicago Health department rec
ommends the use of the above ice DO
as well as local physicians"