New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-24
WOULD SAVE THE BABIES.
| ederIe Announces His Plans tor
Summer Campaign.
WORK FOR SCHOOL NURSES
Each Will Re Required to Take
Charge of $50 Infants
After June Is.

Health Commissioner Lederle has oesuii
his summer campaign 70 lower me Hiian'
mortality rate. The work as outhneu ~
the Health Commissioner will be oohe
through the division Of child hygiene anu
will deal principally with infants under
one year old.
From May I the nurses who nave o
detailed TO schools in certain consesteu
districts where the death rate ana 'he VIZ ~
rate are both high have been visltins ms
houses where the greatest NUMBER OF oii ''9
have occurred since January ! hach hu
has seventy-Ave babies under her care Hi,d
she devotes half OF each dav 70 THIS "oiA'
Each baby must be visited once N ven
DAYS a daily report Of the STATUS -
each baby seen is forwarded 20 the depart
n1ent. and an individual record OF ear"
case Is kept
on June - the Health Commissions VII
withdraw the nurses from all school Work
and from that date until fall each nurse
will be required 70 hav. 70 babies IN her
charge The nurses will be held responsi-
bic for the oversight and supervising or
these particular cases.
Much good will be ACCOMPLISHED through
lectures on hygiene IN the public SCHOOLS
the Health Commissioner thinks. and lect-
ures ar. 70 be given from now on IN each
public school 70 girls over twelve years Oh
regarding the care ot babies In districts
where the need seems most evident niue
mothers leagues will he formed for me
purpose OF aiding in the ork Of reducing
infant mortality
Lecture centres for conferences with
mothers With instruction IN the care or
well babies in the prevention Of disease
ard necessary medical attendance for sick
babies. will be established in the various
recreation centres. recreation piers and
mothers and babies Fairgrounds. Meet
irgs vii be held once week. and
definite course OF instruction in infant care
will be carried out Inspectors particu-
larry suited 70 this type ~ work Will oe
selected for the purpose.
According 70 Commissions Lederle nine
infants milk stations have been opened IN
the city Three Of these are IN Manhst-
tan and six in BROOKLYN nurse IS IN
attendance az each Of these and an in
spector visits each station twice = week.
Four more stations are 70 b opened n
the near future TIE leases for the re
naming two have not vet been signed
Commissioner Lederle believes that q psr
cent % the deaths among infants can he
traced 10 food and thai pure milk sta
items are the most practicable agencies for
lowering the infant mortality rate.
II is believed that by such intensive dts
trict work as Is planned the method 81
handling case records and the system Of
reports 10 be instituted for this work. a
definite record can be KEPT If the actual
results Of the work performed bv the
division. together with definite statement
of the exact cost Of each type OF the work.
This years attempt Of the Health De
partment 10 lower the infant mortality rate
in this city is on more extensive lines than
in former years. Commissioner I-ederle
places much store in the good that will
come from the nine milk stations As well
as through the course Of instruction 70
be given n mothers and 70 Young girls
who are often put in charge Of babies.