The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-14
Campaign Against This Most Dan
aerous Insect is Started at Pub
lie Meeting Yesterday at
the Hippodrome.
MAYOR OPENS CAMPAIGN
Suggests That People Help to Make
This Week Success--Dr. Fuller
Tells What is Best for
the Baby.

The observance of baby week which
! is being conducted this week by the
Visiting Nurse association and the
/ Baby Welfare league, was formally
opened yesterday afternoon by Mayor
! Lotion at the Hippodrome theatre.
| Mayor Lotion spoke of the debt OF
gratitude which the city owes these
two organizations and the visiting
nurses for the work they are doing
| to promote public health. He said
city's greatest asset is it's citizens
and that which promotes the welfare
and happiness OF the citizens should
| be heartily commended. He express
ed hope that the meetings OF the
week should be largely attended and
formally proclaimed the observance
OF baby week opened.
Mayor Lotion presided throughout
the afternoon and introduced the Rev.
| j. H. Matthias of the First Baptist
church, who offered prayer and at
| the close of the program pronounced
| the benediction.
Prof. E. s. Patterson gave an ad,
dress on The Fly Menace, which was
| Illustrated by pictures. 1t was clear
Ily shown that the fly is more danger
Gus than any single known disease,
because it is disease carrier. IT
is the deadliest of all living things.
He said that fly campaign Is worth
while and that because of campaigns
in Cleveland, Ohio, for several years,
there are practically no flies in Cleve
land and screens are not now neces'
sary in that city. MIR. Patterson said
that the manual training department
In our city schools is teaching boys
to make fly traps. His talk was in
teresting, practical and every word
he said was to the point.
Best for the Babies.
DR.. F. NJ Fuller gave a very help
full talk on What is Best for the
Baby. He said in part: Eve see SO
many babies, We ought to know what
they are-but we don't. II some one
were to offer you handsome Pack
ard car and say this car is for you.
get in and run it, you probably
would take try at it, hoping to learn
and you might go fairly well if you
had the width of Main street and no
body else on the street. In some
such haphazard way many mothers
undertake the care of a baby, the
most delicate organism in the world,
and hope in some way to care for It's
needs. To emphasize the necessity OF
Intelligence in the care Of baby IL
the object of the observance OF baby
week.
Motherhood does not carry with
| it any intuitive knowledge as to how
to care for baby A mother does
not need to be taught to love her
hv INT
she must be taught how to care
healthy child you must begin with
its grandfather. Nothing was ever
more true than that for child's
heritage of health is great asset for
long life
He spoke OF the necessity of prop.
err food for the baby and said that 90
per cent OF babies improperly fed,
come under the Doctors care for in
digestion before they were eighteen
months old You cannot feed baby
improperly and have well baby.
He said most of the diseases from
which grown people suffer, come to
them in infancy.
He spoke of the delicacy of the
baby's nervous system and said that
the greatest mistake in the world is
the idea that baby is a play thing
1t is all right to play with doll.
but with the baby never. He said
that many babies were improperly
dressed and that it was cruel to wrap
and bind their legs and feet until
they could not move about comfort
ably.
infectious Diseases.
Speaking Of infectious diseases, he
said: "The day has gone by when
Intelligent people think their children
have to have measles and whooping
cough and chicken pox and scarlet
fever There is no more need Of
child having measles than having
the bubonic plague. In New York
last year more children died from
measles than from infantile paralysis
and yet the whole country was
wrought up over the danger Of infan-
tile paralysis"
He said that 1t is not to our credit,
that so per cent Of the boys who are
now offering themselves in America
for enlistment in the army and navy,
are being rejected because they are
physically unfit.
every child has right to health.
If you do not give your baby good
care, IL nus a llSuI W 1OWl. II you
feed it improperly and it gets indi-
gestion, 1t has right to cry. If you
wear out its nervous force until il
cannot sleep, it has right to cry.
1t has no other means Of protest
against discomfort and improper
care, and If you give it intelligent
care, your baby will be well and
happy"
The musical number Of the after
noon was The Song of the Vikings.
by a quartette. Messrs. Brunat,
Barnes, Osborn and Lloyd, Miss Ethel
Osborne played the piano accom2ani-
ment The music was a delightful
addition to the afternoons program.
TomorroW's Program.
Tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock, In
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