Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-29
Baby Week Program Closes Tonight.
G. Qo.,It. D. Ii
Last Day Brings Many Parents
and Children to PaIama Set
tiement; Yesterday After
Moons Scoring Brought Two
Perfect Babies to Notice. a
Girl and a Boy


Girl and a Boy
This afternoons and evenings ;
I sim III aalaLFa StuiumCnt Will CI@-e
BABY Week. the first Ot lis kind ~ ="
ned in HunoHlu. and 10 Honolulu
ca the Dsp with CtAer I uitea state
cities Nh ch are thoroughly alive l.
. The bensf is OF every new m0Neneni
ioI sore phase OF community welfare.
line first Baey Week was inausurated
: il Chicago in April 1914.
HE examinations Eere i1r the So
have shown that as a Whole Homo
IumS babies average high lily L.
7 the greater majority> of the $50 aver
aged 81 per cent A large Number
! went above the maximum standard
, in some respects, which is cause shr
! qualification to the parents. even l.
( their youngsters were penalized fur
! being above standard.
! Even with so few relatively OF ati
! the babies in Honolulu examined.
eight infants suffering from some dis
case We're discovered, and the parents
I.EEew nothing OF their children beng
! st, afflicted. Furthermore. a lar."
number of minor defects were d.,
/ closed that surprised the parents, III
! Guiding two cases of curvature OF TIT"
! spine, several cases Of adelOids, etc
Baby Week Justified.
! II no other benefits resulted fror
! the campaign and SHOW these are
! sufficient to warrant the time, efft It
~ ;,,f,
| the lectures afternoon and evenrg,
! tie literature distributed, the lessons
| graphically presented in the booth "N-
kibits, all did their share in instructiRG
and enlightening mothers as to- their
/ duties with their sacred charges. That
these demonstrations and lectures
were well attended s attGsted by the
fact that the average: attendance each
Gay at baby Headquarters has been
considerably over 700.
If only $50 babies under years OF
age can be examined in weeks cam.
palgn, strenuously and efficiently
planned with large number of physi-
clans, nurses and volunteer workers,
how Dlain it is that there is plenty
Of work for every day in the year
examining, visiting and measuring the
more than 5000 babies in Honolulu,
with some 1900 arriving each year to
swell the ranks or to take the places
OF those who pass the 6-year, mark.
After Child Welfare Station.
Immediately following the close Of
this weeks work, James A. -Rath, Mrs
F. w. Macfarlane and others are 60
inu IN, NrI IN
manent child welfare station estab-
lished. Already two donations of $40
each have been subscribed towards
this purpose
At Fridays examinations the com
petition was keen, with every baby
examined surrounded to see whether
1t could come up to the high standard
OF the previous days examination or
perhaps beat it. Since an almost
perfect child was discovered the ex-
element has been intense to find at
least one perfect baby to score 100
per cent Great was the joy at head
quarters when two such scored yes
terday, one closely following the
other, The first was Barbara Jane
Cunningham, Is months old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur S.. Coming
ham. who reside at 1887 Pensacola
street Mr.. Cunningham is a jeweler
with H. Culman at Fort and Hotel
streets. ~. 49,. -...-..
The second perfect baby is William
Gertz, Ir., son of Mr.. and Mrs. viii
liam GeTtz of 1928 Tenth avenue KAT
muki. When the Cunningham babY
had scored loo. the nurses and the
many ladies assisting in the examina-
ton and measurements exclaimed:
'Of course, it's a grit" But when
the Gertz boy came through with his
perfect score, the physicians, the Coy
Scouts and the reporters cheered for
their sex. And the boys champion
has whit the best of it, for the girl
is native daughter of California.
having been born in San Francisco
and brought to Honolulu five months
ago, whereas the Gertz boy was born
at Eaimuki, one of Hoholulu's most
healthful residence sections.
An interested spectator several
afternoons this weke has been Miss
Ruth Ferreira, superintendent, of the
baby or cradle roll of the First Meth
cdist church Miss Ferreira has seen
to it personally that most of lthe :,
on her cradle roll have been entered
in the contests. So systematic had
the. work of examining the twist.
ing. squirming, wriggling, screaming.
struggling tots become that yesterday
6Shad passed through just as five
o'clock struck. This brought the to-
tag up to 275 for the five days.
Women Do Devoted Work.
While many Honolulu's Ieadingt ply
sfeians and dentists have given tatj