Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-07
LEVY TELLS OF PROGRESS
IN BABY WELFARE WORK
Death Rate nf Infants Lowered 10
Marked Extent Since
1910
ATNSLlE MAKES ADDRESS
Baby Week Opens With Interesting
Exhibits of Furniture and Toys,
as Well as Instruction in Methods
of Feeding Infants.


/ There are 33l more babies under one
wear OF age alive to-day than would
have been il the death rate for infants
! "cr" III" same as i'm 1910, said Chief
| Health officer IL. G. Lcvy in his lecture
! 'H'hN Saving by the Richmond Board
OF Health at the opening day of BABY
| Welfare Week in the store of Sydnor
~ liundley yesterday afternoon
The establishment OF the Department
OF nurses for mothers ana the regu,a-
ton OF the milk supply Of Richmond
are TWO or The direct causes Tor tho
excellent showing OF ,hc infant death
! rate in Richmond. which has attracted
attention III all sections of the United
| states
1T was in 1907 that the dairy in.
spcctions first began said Dr. Levy
ana since that time there has not been
S'hSic instance Of any illucss caused
NY impure milk in 1910 the frs,
nurses were engaged by the Health pr-
"rtncnt 10 visit mothers to instruct
'h"h IN the car" Of their babies NJ
RI example Of the result Of supcrvi-
sion of nurses. will quote these
INJURIES. In the year 1871. 3.i13 babies
were horn Out of this number orr
nurses visited l.GlG ana gave. instruc
non to tn" mothers. and only eighty
babies died, or less than :. per cent
OF the remaining 1857 babies. 3Go died
or nearly ~ per cent"
Il:NY GIVES STARTLING:
COMPARATIVE FIGURES
Or. Levy then explained that oftcr
d"ductnr for all errors. and although
u apparently appeared that four times
~" babies died among the infants that
were unattended. nevertheless il was
SAT" to say that the children un,t
tended died at least twice the rate of
those VIII" have the services of the
nurses.
The most striking figures. he said
were the comparisons of the iufan,
mortality rate for 1910 and for 1915 In
the former years. 623 babies under ono
year OF age died. while in 1915 with
= much larger population. there wero
nut Ai2 deaths among babies under ono
Ncar OF age. The number OF births in
i?l" were 2.Ii3. and the number ~
haoics uNinS under one year of ara
WAS 623. so that the rate was us dcatb.
Tor each .o0o born. In contrast to This
rat" was the remarkably low figures
in 1915. whom CIT 4, 3.i13 births. ONLY
AZ died, or nj the rate OF 10. per .oo0
"irths. IF this same rate in 1910 had
been made the basis Of the calculation
OF 1913, the number OF babies who
would have died this year would hav.
totaied t93 instead of a."
ilr. Levy explained that the nurses
cared not only for the babics with the
best chance to live, bat that every soc
ton OF thu city was visited. and IN,
babies attended We're from the rich
and poor families alike
AINSIIE TELLS OF
BETIi!t BtHN MUN EMENT
Mayor George AinSlic o,yncd tho
session with an Interesting talk on the
'i"ttcr Babies" movement He OK
planned that it started in Chicago in
1914 and then 81 read 10 New York ANA
| pittsburgh. and then was taken up in
other SECTIONS of The cuuutr" until il
Is national event. lie pointed ont
that the l:ichmond women ycre pio-
nc"rs in the work. inasmuch as they
had Il similar baby exhibition at TN.
state Fair III" same year that the first
BABY Welfare Week vas started In
Chicago
i'r y. T.. Flicker, OF The Bureau Of
Vital Statistics. spoke on Privileges
Of Motherhood"
The Instructive Nis,tin. Nurses As
sociation and the Federation OF Moth
"rs Clubs have arranged exhibits OF
foods for the baby, proper and in, :
! proper toys and demonstrations on the
care OF children given by the nurses
I'i"i tables, showing the correct food
Tor nabicS up 10 five yeas OF aye: Il,
'-nhd" nursery and the cribs and
cradles that should be use aud those
which ar" dangerous make up the dis
play.
The lectures that will he given to-day
. are as follows: Infant Feeding" Dr.
, II. VI. koschro; "Privile.:cs Of Mother
, hood" Or. ~ T.. Picker