New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-22

'.will YOU give 81 a year to help save inc
tenement babies?"
That is what Mrs J. Borden Hartman
,iceIchairman and manager Of the finances
Of tr. committee on infant mortality OF
,be New York Mix Committee, will ask
tomorrow by mail Of every woman IN Ne"
York City who doesn't live in a tenement
.Uo have got to raise $4,000 year II
VIZ arc 10 establish and support sixty mix
stations and sixty milk stations we must
have IL the babies Of New York are 10 oe
GOD r." Mrs Hartman said last THURSDAY
a. her home. No. 81 East 49th street W.
shall raise it. | know one woman mas
given $500 a yeaT-says she Is eoi's "
support the Mulberry street district An
other has given 500 year But we want
the small gifts. too-Ve want every "'H'0n
10 have a part in this work. ana ''a' 10
why we are sending out appeals 10 every
woman not living IN a tenement we uon !
want 10 appeal to those 10 whom il might
be a hardship 10 give.
.Tlis work OF saving The babies means a
great deal G, me. Think Of the potenuah-
tie, OF the ereat masses of people on the
lower East Side. Little Italy, the tenement
districts Of tho West side Think OF II!
There might he a Lincoln somewhere
among those babies; but how could LIN
coin develop with the underfeeding' the bad
feeding the poor care many of them are
victims OF?
The very hardes, thing about these con-
ditious. 10 me is not that eight thousand
babies die every year that need not die j
they had proper feeding. The hard thlne
Il chat NJ those that survive so many grow
up understood. weakly, with no power 10
resist disease. I've been down on the East
Side and around in the tenements GOOD
deal and it gives one. sometimes such
hopeless feeling 10 see how many stunted
figures and sickly faces there are. Such
people have no power Of resistance, and by
and bv tuberculosis or some other disease
attacks them. and-not to speak OF the
humanitarian side Of it-they cost the pub
lic much more than il would nave cost 10
start them right AT first
Then Ms Hartman explained how me
committee on infant mortality had dis
tricted the city 20 facilitate the Work OF
raising money 10 start ne babies right.
I'VE don't follow the Assembly districts"
she said. "but the apportonment made
some time ago by some doctors for the
tuberculosis work The whole city was
mapped out in districts. each being put
under the supervision OF one OF the hos
pitals We follow these lines. having
leader for every district These leaders APP
norrt street leaders. one for every street.
and IL appeals remain unanswered for say,
two weeks. the street leaders will look the
matter VI.
1T was interest iu The tU' srCuloslS work
that led 10 ny interest I'm milk stations for
babies" Mrs Hartman went on. at was
the problem Of providing food for the
babies Of tuborculsr mothers, who Couldu /
nurse them.
This reminds mo TO say that one Of the
great objects or the milk stations viii he
70 increase the number Of mothers who can
nurse their babies. which is OF course, the
ideal method Of infant feeding. When II
isn't disease. but lack Of proper feedlhg on
the mothers part, that prevents her from
nursing her baby, We hope to remedy the
condition. know poverty Is one great
r.asor for the under-n Ourishment nut IL
norance is another We shall have trained
nurses and doctors with the mix stations
and their business will be TO educate the
rotbers-to show them, not only III the
classes Al the milk stations. but IN VISITS
at their homes. how to buy and now 70
cook 20 make the most Of what money
they have.
And then the mothers will be taugh'
all about taking care Of the baby no" Il
should be dressed. how to bathe IT, how t'
iced il and what not 10 feed IT, II IS th'
most interesting thing 10 see how M
mothers come TO the classes at the sta
lions the New York MIX Committee has -
far been able 20 open. and how, II the
cannot come. they send the older sisters
the little mothers who arc just as cage