The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-22
Mothers with Infants Facing
the Torrid Wave in Fran
tic Fear-Scores of Babies
Are Dying.
BY STANFORD MCFARLAND.


NEW YORK, July 22-The moth
er's of New York's East Side are again
in the clutch of the old terror; the
excessive heat wave. Mothers with in
! fants and babies facing their desper-
ate second summer are living in frant-
ic fear. They realize full we'll that be-
fore the heat abates hundreds of little
lives will be snuffed out and the ques-
ton is constantly before them, whose
child will it be-"
Despite the great and energetic eff.
forts of organized societies and per-
sonal philanthropists looking to the
relief of the East Side children there
is no human power that can prevent
hundreds of them from succumbing
to this hot breath of summer, which
annually gamers it's harvest of young
and old
With the mercury doggedly hanging
around 100 degrees and no assurance
of immediate relief the East Side
does indeed present pitiful spectacle
While thousands of children and their
mothers have been taken to the sea
side, there seems to be no diminution
, in the throngs that people the made,
quate parks and breathing space OF
the East Side, of mothers that sit at
| open windows frantically tanning
their naked young and of the old who
walk restlessly about. pathetically
seeking shady places that often are
already usurped by the younger and
stronger.
| But New York has never failed to
respond magnifcently to the appeal
coming from her suffering East Side
Every year the city puts forth increas
ed efforts to alleviate the sorrows OF
inevitable that many babies will die
this summer that might have been
saved, it is equally true that thous
ands will be saved that might have
died but for the succoring care at
forded by the city, by charitable or
CARNATIONS and private individuals
This work has become so we'll system
atized and has grown to such vast pro
portions that it is not stating more
than the truth to say that every sicl
baby on the East Side can receive
medical attention without cost anC
that before the summer is over every
needy child can have a trip to the
seashore.
If there is one thing on which the
great city of New York is united; tina
binds the metropolis together as by {
golden thread, it is the love of babies
In New York, the baby is king, o.
he
the lives of it's babies is New York.
greatest municipal enterprise-an en-
Iterprise amounting almost to civil,
passion. And since most of it's babies
are on the East Side and conditions
there make their chances of life NOR
precarious than elsewhere it Is there
fore on the East Side that New Yorl
concentrates most of it's work Of con
servation of the young.
If one has lost his great respect 70
the great metropolis through believ
ing that it is too commercially hal
dened to interest itself in the needs o
the poor and humble let him take
walk through the East Side on an.
Of these hot midsummer days. Their
he will find at various points healtl
stations with East Side mothers flock
ing to them as to harbor of refuge
with sick, crying infants, seeking ali
and comfort from the skilled femal
physicians whom the city has place
there. And from each one of these sta
tons go out a corps Of nurses, unde
the doctors directions, visiting homes
If those seething tenements can b
called homes, where there are sic
babies. Like soldiers actuated by tn
purest patriotic motives these devote
| women are at their nosts daY afte