Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-15
PHYSICIAN DENIES
CHARGES AGAINST
HOME At NIT
INSPIRED Attack Us DR..
English, of New Story
on Blind Babies ntiOn.
Especial to tho N, - ta, /,

SUMMIT, Nov. 1N-l5al was
made today by DIR. De English,
| attending physician ~ Arthur
Home for Blind Bah & S.,S1 Pine
Grove avenue. that Il rty-nine
charges We're neglected a. kept in
shockingly insanitary SUI dings.
The charge was made pa New
York newspaper in stoiy alleging
that the International Sunshine So
ciety, which owns the home. exploited
the blind babies and collected $1,000,-
900 for which no accounting has been
made.
DR.. English asserted that the at
tack had been inspired by enemies of
Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, of New
York, the national president.
object Is Revenge.
THE women We're defeated in their
campaign for offices in the Interna-
tional Sunshine Society," he said,
''and are taking this revenge.
Il don't know anything about the
finances of the society. That Is mat
ter with which ] have nothing to do.
do not even get a salary for attend
ing the children of the home,
II have the most perfect faith,
however, In the absolute honesty of
Mrs. Alden and her associates.
"The reporter who visited the home
was on mischief bent. He was inso-
lent and impudent. He did not see
the hospital at all. The room that he
called the hospital is the infirmary.
The hospital for contagious diseases
is in separate building, which he
did not visit. No contagious cases
are ever kept in the main building.
The infirmary is used as quarantine
room for children who have been
away on visit and for new arri-
walls for a period of fourteen days to
see that they don't bring in any con-
tagious disease.
Certified Milk Is Used.
There Is no room ever kept with
windows closed. There is no room
ever kept at so degrees Fahrenheit
The babies are all fed with certified
milk.
There are three trained nurses in
the building, two for day work and
trt for night wo-k. The other at
teidants are M graduate nurses.
They are att ants whom we
trained oursclv, and they are far
more expert With blind babies than
the ordinary graduate nurse.
THE blind babies that come to us
ftll ItIlPlONC lcStCI LIlttIl IIltN
did at home under the care of their
mothers. This Increased ii,.p4oYsna---
is more rapid than der fsts
mothers care because the, . 2e.ena-
ants are trained In that particular
lSind OF w1Fk and because these chill
dren have the companionship of each
other and teach each other, which
they cannot do when isolated in their
own homes
There are no 'gibbering and jerking
idiots in the home. Many of the
little children that come to US are
backward and somewhat feeble-mind-
ed because they are blind and have
been kept too long with their mothers
and have not had expert care and
training. Such children are kept for
one year and If they have not shown
marked improvement in that time we
send them elsewhere.
Home lis Kept Glenn.
THE home is kept scrupulously
clean. The institution is kept as
much like home, and as little like
an institution. as possible. These
trained attendants become very much
attached to their charges and give
them all the coddling and attention
that any little children should have.
When they go home for visit they
are always homeSlcK to get back to
the Arthur Home
"Their diet, clothing and exercise in
the open air are carefully regulated
according to the best scientific prin-
ciples. We are the only institution
In the United States that takes in
blind babies under three years old.
We have lower morbidity rate and
q lower mortality rate than any insti-
tuition for infants in the country
Miss Bessie Thompson, the head
nurse, said that she was graduate of
the New York Hospital and had been
trained nurse for fourteen years.
She said that the institution was sani-
tary in every way and that every
thing possible was done for the chill
dren.
"Dr. English and I give weekly lee
lures to the attendants" she ex-
planned. I'VE have a kindergarten
for the children every morning The
babies are all quite happy and far
better off than they would be in
their own homes"