New Britain herald., 1915-08-03
! '' THE | 5 BABIES
 MILK STATION AIM
Great Work Accomplished This
 Far Shown By Mrs. J. E. Martin

~A NAAU A D MA0s Va As NA"A eAAA
 An idea of the great good the milk station is doing is gleaned from re- port prepared by Mrs. J. F. Martin on the progress made this summer. The report demonstrates the usefulness of the station and should be read by every man and woman who has the welfare Of New Britain at heart. The report follows:
 The milk station for babies, which is being operated for the fourth con- secutive summer at the Burritt school, continues to contribute great and needed service to this community.
 'So many of the illnesses among babies during the summer months could have been avoided had the
 mothers only known the first prin- ciples, of prevention, and it is the realization of the need of enlighten- ment concerning those principles that has caused this work to be carried on
 Every mother knows that a we'll baby is much easier to care for than a sick baby and fortunate indeed is the mother who, knows just what to do and how to do 1t, in order to insure the baby's health and comfort as well as her. own, but all mothers do not, know just what. to do, although anxious and willing, and the milk sta :. ition provides opportunities for getting this knowledge for all those who wish to avail themselves of the efficient service to be had there.
 Service at Milk Station
 The service at the milk station re- solves itself into several different kinds. all beneficial to the mothers who, for the most part, have much to learn as to the proper care or thelr children. There is the preparation or the food from formulae furnished Dy physicians and sold to the mothers all ready for use; there are mothers meetings held every Thursday aTter- noon at which the mothers are ln- structed in matter of hygiene, cloth ing, and diet for their babies; moth CTS are taught how to prepare the milk themselves, and there is valuable follow-np work in the homes of the babies.
 Miss Sarah Hamrick, who is in charge of the milk station this sum- rner is doing very efficient work there, her previous experience in in- fant welfare work making her espe- cially valuable for this service and her helpers are able and experienced !, trained nurses, who are rendering her the best kind of earnest assistance.
 Tt will be interesting to the com 1 munity to read the details of the work l done at the station during the five l weeks 1t has been in operation this ! summer, as submitted to the milk l station committee by Miss Hamrick in. her monthly report: s
 Sixty-three babies have been reg istered at the station and at the pres l ent writing thirty-nine are being fed l there. Of the remaining twenty-four, 1 three have been transferred to the ! babies hospital at Hartford, two have l died, and the rest have been assisted 1 to recover from illness and properly l fed.
 "In all, 1,036 quarts of milk have 1 been bought by the station and dis pensed in various forms. The nurses have prepared and sent out 5,638 feed l ings, which are sold at the rate of i eight cents a quart, and 196 quarts of | whole milk have been dispensed at the rate of eight cents a quart, the sta ton paying ten cents a quart for all milk delivered there; 16O quarts of skinned milk, left after the formulae are filled, have been disposed of; 134 visits have been made at the homes.
 Mothers Meetings at Station.
 Mothers meetings have been held which have been we'll attended, and at which valuable instructions have been given and souvenirs in the form of articles suggestive of the baby'st comfort were provided by a philan- thropic woman.
 A number of breast-fed babies are being brought to the station to be weighed, and it is Miss Hamrick's aim to encourage this kind of baby, of which she finds all too few in our city
 Many mothers have been taught and are now putting up their own fornulae, and this is the underlying Jim of the station.
 .The station has been carrying ten charity cases, but a number of these nave been taken over by thoughtful women who have each furnished $5
 Q carry a baby through the summer
 Sunshine Society Helps.
 The Canonicus branch of the Sum
 .hine society has contributed to the
 appfness and well-being of large
 umber of mothers and babies X by
 furnishing them with ice. How much