The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-10

was kept OF 500 seriously sick babies|
brought there from the crowded
tenements of New York and treated
with an abundance OF sunshine and
clean food. The results showed that
recovery followed In 594 cases. or 90
per cent. II was then splanned To
carry the Sea Breeze idea 10 tho
mothers and children who could not.
20 To Sea Breeze. A strong crops OF
visiting nurses enlisted, and made
canvass of the upper East Side tene1
ment districts In search OF opportuni
tiles TO aid these unfortunate mothers'
and children. BY visiting 10000
homes they we're able to find $4,000
mothers who were sorely In need of.
assistance. These mothers agreed I'd
cooperate with the nurses in their eff
forts TO save the babies, and were inl
structed in all the details OF infant
care. The result was that, although
the infant death rate in other SEQ
tions OF the city showed an increase
that summer over the preceding oneI
In the territory covered by the JunibI'
Sea Breeze workers the rate wa<'
materially reduced.
One OF the gravest dangers that
besets the pathway of the baby ID
tuberculosis. While stomachic trouhs
les are more Immediately fatal, and
therefore the infant death rate from,
those diseases much higher, yet thou
sands of consumptives who live be.
yond the period OF infancy may trace,
their infection back TO their Infant
days A child is sensitive TO com
tagion of all kinds. even under norl
NAL conditions. but especially so ID
tuberculosis. To make the matted
more serious, tuberculosis Is bettef
able to hide its presence in the body
OF an infant than in a grown-up, sd
II Is not suspected. The characterize
tic symptoms OF adult tuberculosiS
are lacking.
In the handling OF tuberculosis
among infants, as we'll as among
grown-ups, the medical fraternity ID
handicapped by social condition@
which form an effective bar to the
introduction OF methods which migEs
wipe it off the list OF dreaded dis.
eases. Notwithstanding this they ard
encouraged in their work by the
knowledge that there Is an ideal al
which to aim. Strange TO say. thiS
ideal comes from the veterinarian
Some years ago a DR.. Bangs decided
he could eradicate tuberculosis in cat
tie He took a herd OF infected STOCK
and put the healthy members on q
farm where there was no tuberculo,
sis. AS calves came in the infected
herd, he Immediately carried them I'd
the noninfected herd, and fed them
only on noninfected milk, or on pas
teurized milk from infected cows. II
this way he gradually Increased th@
size of his non.infected herd and
diminished the infected herd until
the latter was exterminated. OF
course 1t would be impossible TO sc
segregate people. or to take babiet
away from infected mothers, but the
Bangs bovine experiment is cited b
physicians as an encouragement II
them.
The economic possibilities OF tho
baby saving campaign of the humanl
itarians now in session in Baltimore
are beyond estimate.
Many of the richest contributions
that have ever been made to humaIl
welfare were given by men who werd
born In ignorance, poverty and dirt
Helped by science and philanthropy
through the unequal fray of the frs
years battle for life, thousands other
wise doomed to an infant grave would
grow up into virile manhood and vir'
tuous womanhood.
Tomorrow-Catholic Communities ID
America.