The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-17
Keokuk Doctors, Speaking Be-
fore Audience of Parents,
Offer Advice and
Suggestions.
CLEANLINESS is URGED
This is Cardinal Virtue Both
for Mother and Foster
Mother Pictures
Shown.

Suggestions and advice regarding
His Royal Highness the Baby, were
given an audience of Keokuk mothers
by three Keoluk physicians last night
in the first program of Baby Week in
this city The need of fresh air and
sensible clothing was emphasized by
one of the speakers; the necessity
for pure milk and the danger of con-
tamination in the impure product
education in saving the baby was the
keynote of the third talk Two of
the talks were illustrated by stereop-
ticon slides.
The high school auditorium was
we'll filled when Mrs. c. M Rich.
president of the Visiting Nurse asso-
citation, called the meeting to order.
Mrs. Rich spoke of the efforts made
to provide Baby Week program in
Keokuk and then introduced the
speakers. Dr. F. B. Dorsey, ST., was
the first of the three physicians to
speak, and his topic was Some Sug-
gestions for the Care Of the Baby"
Fresh air, summer and winter day
and night, was one of the things
urged by the speaker for the baby.
He drew picture of the baby all
swathed in heavy clothing lying in
an air tight room, or one in which
there is but slight ventilation. And
then YOU wonder why the child kicks
all the covers off, and you have to
pin them to the bed, and why he mas
Group ant, colds and bronchitis and
such diseases. The baby needs fresh
air all the time and God Almighty
doesn't charge anything extra for it."
The doctor urged mothers to nurse
their babies. This is the best safe
guard, he said. Most women are
fitted for nursing their babies, he
said, and called it 1.-The privilege and
blessedness of motherhood" Some
suggestions for nursing the baby We're
offered by the doctor. He urged that
mothers talk to their doctors about
nursing the child and follow his sug-
gestion.
The death ratio of breast and bot
tie fed babies is 10 to 1, one breast
fed child dying to ten bottle fed in
fants.
CLEANLINESS Necessary.
Cleanliness is another cardinal
virtue which the mother must prac-
tice, DR.. Dorsey said. Hands, uten-
sis. clothing, all must be clean 1t
costs something to be sick, the doctor
the principals of cleanliness in all
things.
Don't give the baby warm water
and don't wrap him up in too many
hot, tight clothes, the speaker said.
Babies cry and you stuff their
stomach with food, when they really
want a drink, and then you give
them a drink of warm water. How
would you like to drink warm water?
Next to mothers milk, cows milk
was recommended, but in this the ad
vice of the doctor should be adhered
to. If mothers would quit taking the
advice of everyone who thinks he
knows something about babies, and
would follow common sense and the
doctors orders, the babies would be
much better off.
The Foster Mother.
1.-The Foster Mother of Our Chill
dren," was DR.. w. P Sherlocks sub
ject. He dealt with the milk supply.
furnished by the United States public
health service. The milk supply in
a town the size Of Keokuk does not
present the problems that the supply
of larger community does, DR..
Sherlock said. The consumption Of
milk in Keokuk amounts to 1,063 gal
Ions daily. The milk comes from
some forty-two different sources.
The danger from Infection in milk
comes from tubercula- COWS, dirty
COWS, COW stables and dirty utensils,
to say nothing of dirty hands and
clothes of the dairy1nan Cleanliness
should be paramount in the dairy,
and this was shown to advantage by