Evening star., 1911-06-11
CHICAGO SETS EXAMPLE
IN SWATT|NC THE FLY
Active Crusade Opens Tomor-
row Under Auspices of
Health Department.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


CHICAGO. H.. June 10-Another
health department today in behalf Of the
babies. 1t is to serve as the last bugle
blast prior to the opening tomorrow of
the annual campaign to save the babies
during the summer months. which begins
this year three weeks earlier than usual
Those in charge OF the baby crusade
are rejoicing that funds and forces are
sufficient to make the early fight at this
time, when the thermometer is hoyering
around 100 and the infant mortality is
great in the city's congested districts
1t is asserted that the organization and
equipment and enthusiasm is greater this
year than ever before. due In great part
to the child welfare exhibit.
League Issues Bulletin.
The Lake Forrest League has issued
a bulletin which says:
yellow fever has been practically
stamped out by the determination of the
yellow fever mosquito. Recent scien-
tific experiments have proved that our
common and prevalent house fly is a
dangerous conveyor of typhoid fever and
tuberculosis.
"The league wishes to call the atten-
ton Of all citizens to the known methods
for the determination OF flies. Every
person VINO values the health OF his
fau,iiy end of the community is asked to
do his share upon his own premises. Di-
rections are given for the treatment OF
manure and garbage and the externina-
tion of flies from the house, and ,he
circular ends with these words:
But remember that the most effec-
tive way to swat the fly Is to swat him
before he is born. Will you help in the
A,f 1Anfl linn In
sect?"
Field Forces and Volunteers.
This years rained field force will con-
sist of 15O nurses and 80 physicians
supplemented by large number Of volun-
teer workers, whose duties will consist
largely of distributing literature and
verbally instructing mothers in the care
of their children. Each of these workers
will be supplied with a cooperation chart.
giving direction for the proper reference
of cases, showing the location of baby
tents. infant welfare, society stations. at
which will provide for the babies care.
and day nurseries. district offices for the
bureau of charities and offices Of the
visiting nurses's association.
A feature of the relief service this
year will be twelve baby tents, ten OF
which are to be financed by Mrs.
Harold +. Mccormick, to be established
in the congested population centers,
where the baby death rate is high.
Mothers may bring their children to
the tents for free consultation and
treatment, there being a nurse and
physician at each station. The names
and addresses of sick babies reported
at each tent will be given follow up
care by staff nurses.
Free Milk and Ice.
Milk is to be supplied free when
necessary by the county and the United
Charities, and at cost by the Infant
Welfare Society. Ice and ice boxes
will be furnished free to the worthy
poor by the county and the charities,
and, In addition, the nurses will carry
ice coupons which will enable mothers
to obtain free ice from any of the
knickerbocker Ice Company's wagons.
The typhoid fever record is low-in fact,
the lowest ever recorded in this city for
the first five months of a year. There
were only so deaths, fewer than in the
first five months Of 1910.
The decreases, among other chief
causes, were 80 fewer deaths from pneu-
monia, 173 fewer from tuberculosis and 81
fewer from cerebro-spinal fever. There
We're IS fewer deaths under one year Of
age.