El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-11

4 cause Preta had had measles and had
| been Quarantfned They seemed to IN
! derstand what the quarantine meant
| and were very indignant because of it
protesting against having been kept in.
l left Kansas street and went over to
| Campbell street to see little Refugio
and found this baby very sick DR.
Kluttz had seen him on Saturday, and
/ the case was diagnosed broncho-pneu-
monia- Baby had had the measles, gas
troenteritis, and now broncho-pneu-
monia- Instructions were given as to
spongtng, diet poultices, etc. 1 then
went to the canal to see Salvador Cyou
remember Salvador. the little typhoid
boy). He was up playing in the water,
and had been normal for 10 days. Next
L went TO see four cases on Kansas;
then three more on Campbell; over to
St Nrain to see an American baby, suf-
fering from malnutrition. This mother
is most intelligent and came to the dis
pensary because she had been reading
The Herald and believed she would
nave the baby receive the help needed
to guide her in saving the child. One
more case was seen on St. Vrain; then
to Virginia, 4th street, 10th street,
Zaragoza alley and over to the river.
Rosa's WhOOping Cough.
Between the river and the Santa Fe
tracks, in a little blue house, lives Rosa
Rosa had had Whooping cough and now
typhoid. Her two brothers have had
whooping cough and measles. This is
another family deserving Of all that is
being done for them. The man has been
out of work for four months and they
have got along without aid until the
children became i'll. Ice, milk, distilled
water and meat, for broth, is being fur
nished them
Over on Stevens street lives Victor
Johnson Victor is an orphan. having
no relative in the world, therefore. a
Mexican woman had taken in the little
American, and is a mother to him in
every sense of the word. First Victor
had gastroenteritis, with a temperature
of 1O41R, and then whooping cough. He
is now fat, we'll. and happy and feels he
is glad that there is such a thing as the
Woman's Charity association School for
Mothers and there is an Ell Paso county
dlSpensary. where little boys. unable to
pay, may secure the services of the best
physicians and whatever medicines
necessary TO make them we'll.
Good Investment.
He told me privately, that if the
county commissioners would only 90
with me on one Of my busy DAYS they
would feel that every cent spent in
maintaining the county dispensary is q
good investment and that they will re-
ceive big dividends in healthy bows and
girls, and Victor knows. for was he
not made well with the medicines and
aid secured there?
He spoke very feelingIy about a, little
friend who had an infected eye. at birth.
and he told me that his friend would
have had no doctor, and would have
been blind (and therefore a state and
county charged if it had not been for
the good doctor at the county dispen-
sary- In fact, Victor spoke of friends
who had had eye trouble, skin trouble,
stomach trouble, and many, many others
who had been cured and he gave the
doctors, connected with the dispensarv.
credit for all Of the good work they are
doing.
Victor states that he agrees with
Rockefeller concerning many things and
like Rockefeller he believes to stamp
out disease we must strike at the cause
rather than the effect and he believes
babies and mothers made strong and
well now viii do a great deal toward