New-York tribune., 1909-06-19
TO SAVE THE BABIES
Infant Science 4cadcmy May open
It's Doors Il Year Hence.

II plans nov under way do not rnIsrarry New
York vii have an infant scienc" academy next
summer. 4 committee ~ which Ir- Thomas btf-
liugton president ~ the Health Board, r. a Nom
her is being formed 20 report ou the cost of the
institution and will begin IT'S deliberations next
week The cost has been r"ughi' es'imat"d ri
10000 for the huiidtng Hni &F'"' annually f'f
maintenance hut II has been proposed th't build
incs nov owned 1y city should be- utilized tom
porariIy and ~ a. is fouua tina; this 'an %" done
there is every reason to believe that the academy
viii open its doors year hence.
The idea Of TIE academy "TiEinHfea with MS.
Gibson Arnold and was FIRST brought Z" p"'H'
notice at a meeting 81 leading women ph'iAHthrn-
piSrs held at the home Of Miss Florence Guernsey
AZ the beginning nf last winter. II has been IN
dorsed hy the Committee OF One Hundred an Ma
tfonal Health of which Professor irving Fisher Is
chairman and 10y lending physicians 81 the oi'}.
while hundreds uf mothers have written 10 Mrs.
Arnold teS;Itying th~ great need for such "'Tk
II Will be. Mrs. Arnold Says. ih" nrst institution"
OF the kind Of the world. though Germany mas one
that is somewhat similar Ms Arnoidi viii 81
abroad u the fall t. study the. German INSTITUTIONS
and some French ones that are working aionE ih"
same nue and VIII report any features iha'
seem suitable for adoption 10y the NJ" YORK 'cAu-
erry Tre German institute is investigating VITA
German thoroug hucSs the causes "i IFS h'"i'' '''
,aIIty. The empire having become alarmed boy The
das.L IN their FIRST wear of une-Huh of ts babies.
Tb. l,uiafe fnat13r, of the New York academy.
from Mrs ArnoidTs point of view. Will De- IN" CO.
operation between mother and family physician ana
a CORPS % infant specialists.
a great many physicians don't profess t' %n'"
a great deal about babies said Mrs Atn"al az
the Park Avenue Hotel Yesterday, hut through
the infant science academy they Will be- kept IN
constant touch with corps II specialists Tor
whose advice most families would ne unable 60 pay
II Is proposed that the family physician shall re-
port births and expected births 10 the academy
and from that time. long as may IL necessary,
mother aad child will be kept under constant super
vision and reports Will be sent regularly 10 the
family physician. The cost Of this service for
those who can pay Uil probably he about 800
wear For those who cannot pay tn" city viii he
responsible. It is expected that the academy will
red uca infant mortality over one-haH and II the
idea could be perfectly realized infant mortality
would be practically eliminated. for it is mathe
rnatinal certainty that If babies have proper
they won't die
Along with the plans for an infant science acad-
erny plans for a national infant science congress
are also going forward and it is expected that the
first congress will meet I'm Washington a year from
next September. This congress is being organized
under the auspices OF the Committee Of one Hun
dred. Of which 6. Stanley Hail ex-Presdeut Eliot
of Harvard. Andrew Carnegie. Or. Darlington.