The Caucasian., 1913-11-16

sion. The duty Of the State phySl-
clan is to prevent disease and death
Eby every means Of instruction that
can be usgd. TO teach the mothers
how to save their babies. Every
State physician should conduct Il
school Of hygiene for parents ana
child custodians, monthly or quar-
terly, jusi as educators conduct IN
stitutes and associations for teach
ers. Every physician should use his
| best influence TO remove the Stigma
| that attends the work of the free
physician for the children, who are
not able to pay for life and health.
| Why should it be any more dlscred-
liable, or at all ignoble, to go to a
| firmities, than to go to a teacher to
be treated for mental Incompetent
cy, especially as both sources oil
healing and conservation are PAID
for by the people in voluntary
taxation.
The public health clinic and the
public school educational clinic
must be combined, and each day
when the child goes to school to
learn his lessons he must go TO al
tain his health as we'll as his liter
ary ability.
Each should be under the bes!
scientists of health and psychology.
i Every health department of State
or municipality should not only
register the new born babe and its
y mother or parentage; but it should
supervise the health of the mother
; and babe for at
Least Thirty Days After Maternity
Every public school should regis
ter every new born babe in its
proper school district, and should
, collaborate with the home and the
J mother and the board OF health to
, educate the mother to bring up
: children meet for the public schools
: and to receive an education.
Every man and woman, whether
!. connected with the schools, health
: departments. educational or Other
: civic organizations, should feel 6
: direct responsibility in aiding moth,
{ ers to make, and monthly baby
) census Of the physical, mental ant
moral condition of her child, ol
5 children: and to aid in all legisla-
: tive measures that will compel tn
e school and health agencies OF tn
g State to save the babies in the era
h die by teaching the little mother:
: before the child is five years old tt
! register her childs tripartite
T Development for the State.
: Has the baby an inalienable rlgh
Il to live, health, and well trained
4 mind and ethical conscience? Have
e we an undeubted right to the healtl
: of our babies? This is the answe
to the question as given by an ex
pert authority:
''If most babies are well at birth
y if natures way is killing the stron'
e with the weak; if the condition
d that kill babies are injurlng thos'
Il who survive: if the fact that slxteel
per cent of our babies die in thel
: first year has to do with the fac
S that from fifty per, cent to nlnet
e per cent of our school children hav
e physical defects; if the diseases o
s which babies die are preventable
It if they are diseases OF bad environ
! ment, faulty hygiene, diseases Q
|, maternal ignorance, of official IN
d ertness; if teaching away the con
: ditions that kill the baby prevent
: the physical defects that handEal
d the school child. clog industry an
T. swell the army of the unemployed
e then is it not worth while to say
e babies? Have we not the right
d the lives of babies?
Are We Not Bound to Save Them
d Concerted and costly effort to say
ID even the most miserable baby
S, civic economy, because 1T must re
e suit in a system that fosters the III
It and health of normal babies. Whe
ID applied to infant mortality, tn
survival of the fittest doctrine is
n criminal fallacy. | can show yo'
1t within asfew blocks of my writln
al table, babies as beautiful as thos
Il of Saint -Gaudens, as strong as thos
If of Michaelangelo. | can take you t
homes in any part of our city wher
it you may see as devoted care of tn
,e mother for the child as any sculp
le tor ever lavished upon his worl
yes, as devoted as the Virgin Mary
lgl for her Son. Next summer | ca
n take you to those same homes an
rel show you wasted faces. that ski
d will not restore, empty arms tn;
mi love will not avail TO fill..
II How long will countless bah
lives brighten only for momer
al .t-c-l of Air.