New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
Keeping the Babies UeH
Two Thousand Little Ones Are Under the Care
Of the New York Milk Committee.

there. and she is i'm her element having.
as she explained TO the reporter. had much
to do with babies. Though she IL only SIX
| teen her experience with infant relatives
is wide Another thing I'm which Iemaa
is wise is the superstitions of her country.
THAT woman" she said. turning from
distracted looking Syrian mother 10
whom she had been talking yolubly, that
woman is afraid her baby will not grow
for coming here. she dropped some of the
babys little clothes and some one may
step over them. and in my country it il
said that if that happens the baby VIII
! grow no more. And perhaps it is So, for
| I know a girl who is very small. and per
haps some one stepped over her clothes
when she was a baby. But do not tell
this woman So say Your BABY viii
| grow
! Every mother who gets milk at the sta
tons must bring her baby once a week to
] the clinic to be weighed and examined.
! Or. Van Inger saws that it is really very
. easy to get the tenement mothers TO listen
to reason about their babies
I'VE don't say to them, 90 this. do
! that We explain TO them why they ought
80 do this or that. We don't say merely.
stop giving your child tea. We explain
I why tea is bad for babies one hot day
mother came iu:o a station with her baby
swaddled IN thick clothes asked her
why she did IT, 70 keep the cold from it,
she said told her that the air was not
cold, IL was warmer than the baby. She
saw the point and when the nurse visited
that woman she found the baby kicking in
the cradle with nothing to speak Of on
happy and comfortable
But there's lot To- teach the mothers
vet We have got 10 convince them that
most babies who die of diarrhoehal diseases
die from overlooking rather than underfeed-
ing i'm hot weather. So many women think
their babies must be eating all the time,
and what deadly things they give them,
Ovcrripe watcrmelonS. bananas. hy-sperked
candies. cones OF ice cream fearfully and
wonderfully made. And all the little stom-
ach needs is to be eft IN peace. not tempt
{ Cd with strange fooCs n a baby drinks
! plenty of cool. fresh water IL is not likely
. To suffer from not eating when it is 50 in
clined.'
/ Milk The baby's standby. costs the moth
crs seven cents a quart al the stations.
4 They can get loose milk at the groceries.
and millions Of microbes in the bargain.
/ for five cents quart But they are rap
+ 6ly becoming wise enough TO prefer the
Irilk with FOYER microbes
[ So far the New York milk committee
. has not resorted To pasteurized milk.
! There are facilities at the dairy which
/ supplies 10. so that pasteurized milk could
/ be furnished al an hours notice.
/ But SO far Dr.. Van Ingcn said. 'our
milk has had low bacterial count I'm
afraid of pasteurizauon-a afraid, ! mean.
| that fl would cause farmers to let up on
| the quality Of their milk. Pasteurzation
covers up so many iniquiues that declare
J themselves in raw milk
! Mrs. j. Borden Hartman is chairman Of
! the committee on infant mortality, which
. last spring set out 10 raise $4,000 for the
summer campaign. Paul Taylor is secre-
/ jary of the milk committee. Some day.
/ the committee hopes, the city viii take
/ over the stations and conduct them. Inul
/ then the committee will 20 on struggling
! To raise money TO save the babies