The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-26
GIVE THE BABY
CHANCE TO LIVE
One Million Of Them Could be saved
in Ten Years If Proper Pre-
cautions Were Taken.

SAO IVES VI JIG iliilllOn DdOl0S III Ten
years! TO give the baby as much
chance as the tree when it comes to a
consideration of national conserva-
ton. To erect in the heart of tne
Rocky mountains babies sanitarium
where fight will be made for the
lives of thousands of little ones who
succumb every summer in the United
States to the heat ignorance, poverty
and unsanitary conditions of the great
cities.
This Is the plan OF DR.. Paul s..
Hunter, secretary of the Colorado
state board Of health, which he is to-
day endeavoring to bring about.
Through the United Press DR.. Hunter
today outlined his plan.
by Paul S. Hunter, NJ. D., Secretary
OF the Colorado State Board of Health.
written for the United Press.]
A babies sanitarium, located in the
heart of the Rocky Mountains would
save the lives Of 100000 babies every
summer, or one million babies in ten
years.
II the children Of the needy or
those whose parents are in moderate
circumstances were sent to such a
sanitarium when sickness attacks
them they could be attended by compe-
tent physicians and nurses, given
pure milk, sanitary surroundings and
the benefit Of the wonderful mountain
o{p hn 20 H.
mated. The very first year the In
FAINT mortality of the country would
be reduced seventy-flve percent
Colorado Is the ideal spot in this
country for such a sanitarium be-
cause OF It's central location and be-
cause Of It's mountains. In my judy
ment the nation needs nothing more
than 1t needs place where the lives
of it's future citizens and mothers
can be saved for 1t. Such plan
would be real conservation-tha con-
servation Of human life. do not
say stop the plan to conserve our
forests and water fails and other ma
tural resources to take up this plan.
merely say that the conservation Of
our babies, the saving of 100000
lives In ten years is every bit, If not
more important than the saving OF
trees What achievement could Col
orado or the nation ever hope to &C
compiish that could compare with
this? Could a philanthropist donate te
more deserving cause? What more
purely national project could be put
through than the establishment o
such sanitarium devoted exclusive
4 ly to children and open to every bah.
in the country.
There is no such place in America
and Colorado the nation does no
at first enter into the plan-couid es
tablish such sanitarium on small
scale. New York sees the need OF sucl
a place when it annually sends thu
children of the poor to the seasbort
during the hot summer months. Bril-
liant results have followed in the
wake Of this philanthropy but 1t Is no.
enough. During all of July and Aug
ust and sometimes in September, chill
dren should be away from The grea'
cities. The Associated Charities ant
church associations Of like nature
could attend to the matter of trans
portation and decide what little ones
were to receive the benefits of sucf
an institution. 1t would cost money
of course, but there would not be sc
much to spend during the winter ant
in later years were the babies to BIZ
cared for during some of the summer
at such place.
i Such movement is one that needs
little explanation and no apology. I
is surprising to me that Colorado
long ago did not realize her own won
derful advantages for such an institu
ton and undertake its establishment
Not alone in other states do babe!
4 pay with their lives for the Ignorance
and neglect and poverty of their par
4 ents. In the last biennial period O.
our own state Of Colorado $500 babie.
died Ninety-fve per cent of Till.
number died in the cities and IS pc,
cent of these died in the poorer dis
tricts of the cities during the hot
summer months.
4 Seemingly the lives Of the little
ones are the cheapest things in oul
modern civilization. 1t is sad com
mentary that thousands. yes millions
of dollars are expended annually 70
the conservation of our forests AMI
other national resources, while no
one cent is spent directly by the ma
tional government for the conserva
ton of babies!