The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-12-22
RAYMOND ". PULLMAN.

/ times Washington BRrcaa No. i0A
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Babies hsy, a better chance OF living
and OF growing up
Infant Health in INTO healthy chit
New Zealand. iren In the Island
COS New Zealand
Than Ih any other country or tine
world EBphasi, has been placed on
lB.s fact by Miss Julia G. Lathrop
chief OF the Unitou States children 3
1urean. in "a study which she has made
OF the last repoU o. The New Zealand
Society Tor the Health of Women and
children Miss lathrop. who Tor some
months has heen in Chicago, ill with
paratyphotd fever. and who Is now az
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icalls attention 10 New Zealand's work
of lettering infants health in az out
line OF suggestions which she makes
to Mrs s. :. Crockett, OF Nashville
Tenn. who is chairman OF the public
health committee cl the General Fed
GRAFTON OK Women clubs
New Zealand. says Miss Iathrop
has LONG enjoyed the reputation al
having the lowest infant mortality OF
any country tn he world YET the
people OF New Zeuland were not salts
fed with their child welfare work and
year by year for the past FIVE years
the already enyiaole record or that
country has been reduced point oy
point until, TO give single instance,
the death rate in Dunedin. the princi.
pal city. Is nov only four In every 100
births, or one-seyenth Of the infant
death rate OF Moscow or less than
one-halg ot the death rate or New
York or about one.half that OF IIart
ford. whicn is a city comparable in
size.
Mothers OF this country and physi
clans aad others interested In the in
FAINT mortality problem Will ask how
these conditions nave been secured.
! VIII say that the death rate OF infants
+ IN New Zealand has been obtained by
methods which ard within the reach o.
every community within the United
States. There is Intelligence and there
j. good viii enoGSn In any Americar
community. if once attention is arous
ed. 10 dc all that has been done hy
he New Zealand society, Compare
lively little money IS required there
ana little win be needed here Cnde'
| the presidency OF Or TRULY King
voluntary society was organized u
/ 1905 with the avowed purpose OF IN
/ proving the heaitd or tf1e rTrUtIf7't's 'tfTv
babies OF New Zealand
There are six or seven distinc
| points to the plan of organization O
the New Zealand society There i
first the creation OF many small com
mittees. and at the present time there
I are 20 in the country. which is aoon
I the size o. the state OF Colorado anC
! has a population somewhere near tina
/ OF Connecticut or Maryland Secondly
| the society gives publicity 10 methods
OF improving the health OF mother
| and babies. and this use OF the pres
/ includes The publication Of column
: known as Our babies column, ia va
rious newspapers. so there is scarcel'
a home into which il does not enter
| Various pamphlets and leaflets on th'
care of Babies are also distributed.
one OF the important features o
ithe society's plan OF work Is the en-
! ployment OF nurses known a. Plunket
nurses. in honor OF the wife OF th'
/ eoyerno~gep who took grea
I interest in the society These nurse
help In every way TO instruct the VIC M
on OF New Zealand on the proper care
of babies and the prevention OF ais
ease The society has established
number OF welfare stations, and wha
corresp ponds in this country 10 a haD'
conference is an important develop
ment On the side OF organization. TIT
society co-operatAs with public health
authorities OF the New Zealand govern
ment.
The business OF the nurses Is to ae
as field agents. not as bedside nurses
and 70 instruct a whole countryside Il
the essentials al the proper care O
Lhabies. tho cooperation with the put
lis health authorities Is very close, an
much. emphasis is laid on the fact tina
the benefits of the society are avaiIa
bic. not from the point OF view O
charity. but with q clear recognition
that the functions. while broadly hr
manitarion. are not patronizing no
charitable, nor even in the ordinar
sense philanthropic. but are essential
patriotic and educational
Most chiefs OF government bureau
have to give occasional attention Z
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CORRESPONDENCE. or another Tnui
ual letters from ~
usual people come into practically al
OF the offices. but, 80 far as there
any record IN the departments. IN
United States revenue cutter servic
has the distinction OF having anon
it's correspondents the most persisten
letter-writer known 10 official Wssf
ington.
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men on one OF the United states rev