Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-22
HEALTH RECORDS MADE
BY CITY'S FOUNDL|NCs
Only One Death Last Year of the
Many Infants at InSti-
tuition.
WE'LL ENDOWED BY DIR. GEORGE
Federation Of Mothers Clubs Is
Planning to Carry On Better Ba-
hics' Work ut State Fair on Larger
Scale This Year.

II this hot weather we have been
having is bad for cherished rnothered
babies. ono can imagine that il is bad
indeed for those not SO fortunate
Twelve OF this class the city's little
foundl!ngs. are suffering from the heat
as only babies can, in the Founding
Hosp!ta! a. +25 North Thir;y-second
Street Though many of them are very
thin and complaining, others are how
ever bearing up quite we'll. and. con-
side-!ne TIE Ill health with which the
little ones aln1os; always arrive the
death rate : remarkably low From
tho many babies who 70 in and out o :
the HOSPITAL. only ono died las, wear.
two the year before and cno the wear
before that.
The hospi;a.-which is. Of course.
cha-ita bic irstitution-is very particu-
lar about the admission Of babies 10 it,
II does not allow babies to he simply
lott upon IFS doorstep with no identia-
cation Of any kind. The matron in
charge. Mrs Mullen. had quite an ex-
rerience III connection with this fact
about year ago She saw n man pre-
pairing TO leave 4 Very young baby in
the yard OF a bitterly cold winters
'iH' Ni1c N'.t MINI tnat 40 must take
tho baby hack 20 its mother, who rcallv
wanted 10 Keep II. This he was forced
20 do. after having been arrested and
brought TO court. Several months later
nc came. Voluntarily TO the hospital
10 thank her for The part She had taken.
and 10 say that the baby had been a
continual source Of pleasure ever since
MORE PEOPLE ANXIOUS TO ADOPT
Most OF tho babies come from the
City Hospital when they are about n
month old. When the child Is admitted
Inc age and the names Of his parents
have 10 DO recorded. and he is decided
over to the institution just rs "a piece
OF property might be His parents
have no further right over him what
ever. II is one OF tho mcrciful things
OF this world that there arc always
more people who want to adopt babies
than there are babies 10 fill the demand
hence those in the Founding Hospital
arc always adopted before they ar.
two years old. The foster PARENTS hove
10 be approved by Judge Richardson
and take mn onth to trent tho child wcll
and educate him. They must also ~.
residents OF Richmond as the law for
nids the adoption of these children bv
!amiiles living ut n distance too great
Tot tho court to keep n certain super-
vision over their treatment The names
OF inc foster parents arc kent sccro,
as many OF thcm wish the children IN
grow up in the bclicr that thcy or,
their own, and also wish immun,tv from,
interference on the part of tho narcn,.
IN later years
HOME ENDOWED AND
WELL EQUIPPED
mo home was founded many yooys
ago ny Or. George and rather heavily
endowed This endowment kcens {, nm
very comfortably with very Mttlc holm.
Never more than twelve hahIes mo al
mitted at Il time, and these arc made
very comfortable In a large ai,v house
win big porches and Yards. and cared
lor ny very efficient inatron i've
nurses and cook The Improvement I'm
me Htli" ones after they are hrourh,
10 the home is very marked ,l,,o.,
all OF them start lie with = ,.r-ihl.
handicap. that OF great physical weak
ness or inherited disease That inc MA
!o!itv OF them grow into Fat. rosy ~
!hNts, ana there are VERY re,- dca,ra
speaks loudly for the oric'en--- az ~
htansEeneHi ana N" medical -r.atv.e-.
They receive
The Federation Of Mothers C,y5z .
doing everything pcss:sl. a. 80 ~
in'e'es, in the zig B@,,e- Rao.ss Cor
Th!eA i = ar-anr!nc = ao!d =,
20 safe Fz!- THIS fail TIE .et.-
20, as v@:i.i. succeEs<gl IN t-e con
- 80 ~ r',i .ose - .a-+ g.. evan
2&=- Or 49, -...- T. ~. c-a : il.
z-@--.-E - +-s-t building =. ,te pa.
r'2-.-s e-,.-+.r t-- rs owr. SO M.
49, - ample s-d comfortable
For o>hise -ro,As-r
tTFFtI >EST OFT FOR