The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-04-25
WELFARE STATION
|. FOR CITY BABIES
AIM OF WORKERS
81 H
Mould Establish Systematic
Campaign Against Fearful Ia
FAINT Mortality Here
HAWAIIAN DEATHS NOW 8.
THIRTY-THREE PER SENT
Examination Of Youngsters viii
Open At PaIama Settlement
This Afternoon

The real Of icct Of Baby Week Is to
establish permanent baby welfare
station, where the present death rate
I'm NJ the your gstcrs of Homo 'nm can
be beaten down to normal roporti. NJ.
As it is now, among the Hawaiian 20.
pulatiOn the rate is most thirty.three
per cent per thousand. Ia
The Week which is scheduled to
open this afternoon at one o 'clsek, will
ont:nue in session every afternoon
during this week, from one to Eve
0 clock. In each one of those hours,
four a day, there will he twelve babies
examined and registered, marked and
returned to his or her proud mother.
One every five minutes, and that rate
8 to be kept up all week, so that two
hundred and fifty, and three hundred
youngs tiers will pass through the hands
IF the doctors and nurses at Palama
settlement.
Booths For Babies
The gymnasium has been blocked or
INTO booths in which the different func.
lions of the life and care of infants
will be explained. There are booths
which will show how babies should be
fed and the cleanliness necessary
n the handling of food will be. ex-
plained. The clothing is shown in an.
other enclosure. Home made furniture
and handy arrangements for the bed.
DOM and kitchen are shown in their
dmplicity. A booth is given up TO the
baby's playthiugs and the objects
which are sometimes handed to infants
a moment of desperation to quiet
them. ?" m''"aT
The handling of dairy foods will be
Explained in one booth while the eyes
md ears of the little ones and the care
If them will be shown in a separate
place. A little talk on the first teeth.
and how they should be treated. will
be given in the Office of the set cement
lentist A large exhibit of the anti.
.tuberculOsis league will be the means of
showing many how not to treat ia.
tiehts suffering from the dread DIS. ase.
Where Most Babies Die @,|as Nsst1
Two of the most interesting exhibits
n the show are, the maps Of the city
showing where the most bab, es are
born and die. The loeat Ons are noted
by the use of little pins and Il is D ain
to be seen that the most thictly settled
portions of the town are where most
babies see the light of day first and
close their eyes. for the, long journey
ere, they reach the age of a wear.
MOiliili and 'Palama are the 20 tons
Of the city where the most babies die.
The Japanese, hospital in Lilha
'treet and. the childrens' hospital also
have a great many deaths. The births
Is marked IN red cross and a'ong
King street ont Palama and K9lihi way
the marks look like representation
Of a fence so closely are they together.
The tenement house Districts hays
many pins 70 show deaths and many
red marks to show births. Sanalor ana
1oVerty seem to go hand in hand with
the babies and their comings AMI 90
nps. These maps have been made es.
lecially for the exhibit by the board
# health and are remarkably interest.
ing. 1t is hoped that from the interest
they will awaken it. may. be possible
to find way to lessen the deaths In
the districts where they appear TO be
the most common
Must Be Registered ,f@,
No babies VIII, be examined. unless
they have. been first registered and
special room has been provided for the
phNsl a. examinations Of the ch liren
\ perfect baby is being ssught for and
It is thought fran the many entries he
vIli be found. Mentality tests, win
also hs had and records kept Of all
the work done. '''..,....' - =.
The ladies in charge Of the HBaby
Week are much pleased with ths
neat success they. have met in their
forts. 4 will be LnsY time for Eli
'"nr"rned from the opening Of the
work at one o'clock. this aft rnoon till
the close at five o'clock SATURDAY.