The Mena weekly star., 1916-12-21
CITY MANAGER PLAN
 MAKES LIFE BETTER
In Dayton, O.. Skilled Nursing and ! Free Medical Service Is Available for Mothers of BabieS-0theP
 Good Things.
From the Toledo News-Bae

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 Dayton, O.-The telephSNN in the office of Henry NJ. Waite, Dayton city manager, rings. Waite answers it.
 My little boy came home from school today with a bad sore throat and we're afraid it's diptheria, says a Dayton mother. Will you send one of your doctors and nurses out to see about it?"
 Certainly" says Waite.
 Waite telephones his division of health, and within a few minutes the city government has taken charge of the case.
 An average of 1000 persons a month in Dayton either telephone or cali at the office of their city mana ger to tell their troubles. f the commission manager gov ernment in Dayton is working won derS in increased efficiency and economy in every department, it is doing still greater wonders along social service lines.
 Saving Nearly S3OO,OOO.
 What is a human life worth? A thousand dollars? Then the com mission-manager form of govern ment is saving nearly S300000 a year in human lives.
 In 1913 bad food, poor sanitation, unskillful care of babies, and in- different medical inspection of the school children, had combined with other causes to give the city a death rate of i51 per thousand. Waite's efficiency experts took hold of the problem in i9li and the rate was reduced to l37; to t3 in 1915 and it will be less than i3 this year This means nearly BOO less persons are dying in Dayton each year now than a few years back
 Let is be said that Dayton is the best city in America for a baby to be born in, said Waite His twelve city nurses and corps of district | physicians made it so
 Every mother in Dayton can have Inc free care and advice of the city's nursing and medical department in the matter of feeding dressing and caring for infants.
 Examine School Children. Every school child is examined at least a half a dozen times each year by city physicians and nurses. Last year i50 cases of contagion were lnipped in the bud
 Juvenile crime has been reduced to minimum here Why?
 By establishing play center5 for the children The attendance at these play grounds this year will be close to 20000o. Then the city has built d bathing beach for them There's a municipal dance hall and lreslaarant for the older folks
 Like every other city, Dayton has l hundreds of vacant lots.
 The city will blow the ground free 0f charge for anyone who will start a garden on q vacant lot, was Waites proposition
 More than 650 citizens took hin mp and raised more chan SiS00C worth of garden truck in a singlt | soas0n
 Dayton has special policemen whose special duty it is to rescue girls from wrong moral conditions.
 Loan Sharks Driven Out.
  i The government has practically lelimmated loan sharks" from tho city and the municipal free lega aid bureaus help the people witt their legal problems Even policemen are in on thu social service program In theil leisure moments they act as fire in lspectors and advise citizens how t' prevent fires. Fire losses were re duced sl20000 in Dayton the frs year Waite tried his scheme