The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-07-05
APPROPRIATION BY COUNCIL
Women of City Interested in Caring for
the Babies to Donate Their Services
and Purses Will Be Opened to Aid
the Cause of the Children.

The babies in Kenosha are coming
into their own and at meeting OF the
Common Council held on Monday even
ing provision was made for the opening
of the first baby hospital in Kenosha
and within few days little children
refused proper care in their homes are
going to be wards of the city for q
summer visit or for a visit long
enough to permit them to woo back
into their faces the blush of health
and the sunshine of happiness. Over
on Simmons Play Ground the city is to
open a hospital which is to be dedi-
Gated to saving the lives of the chill
dren of the city Some Of the expense
Of maintenance is to be borne by the
gifts of hundreds Of people in the city
who have offered the waste paper to
save the babies but the institution is
to be directly under the management
of the city health department and a
large measure of it's support will come
from the city. The big house which
sometime ago was the home 0. members
of the Joerndt family on Oak street
il to be converted into the baby hospi-
tai. Within few days it will be rem
ovated and remodeled just, little,
fresh paper will be put on the walls
and score of little baby cots will be
installed in it. Chairman Boylan and
members of the health committee of
the Common Council will cooperate
with the officials of the health depart
ment in providing for the opening of
the hospital.
The park board has given its sane
ton to the use of the building which
is owned by the city and it is expected
that half dozen leading women in
the city will act as patronesses for the
hospital during the summer months
The cost to the city for the equipment
and maintenance of the hospital wilt
be less than thousand dollars FOR tile
year and money for the purpose has
been appropriated. 1t will be put in
charge of graduate nurse--some
motherly woman who knows how to
take care of little babies and little
children. The children are to be taken
from homes where they are not given
proper care and placed under expert
supervision. 1t is thought that if
necessary the hospital will be large
enough to take care of from fifteen to
twenty-five children.
Many of the larger cities have for
years maintained these summer hospi-
tails for the little babies and they have
been of great value in saving lives.
The Kenosha baby hospital is admir-
ably located 1t is just a little ways
from the lake shore and the municipal
bathing beach and it will be only a
stones throw from the public play
ground for the children which the park
board is now arranging to equip. It is
planned to make this hospital for the
sick babies one of the really interest
ing features of the Simmons Play
Ground.
Il is not expected that the appropri-
alton made by the council will provide
Tor all the expenses of the hospital but
1t is such beautiful charity that it is
expected that the work will appeal to
the hearts and pocketbooks of many
henosha people and that it will be
made successful on account of the pub
lie interest taken in it.
Chairman Boylan hopes to be ready
70 receive his family of children with
IN the next two weeks. The children
will be accepted at the hospital at the
recommendation of the board Of health
Six little babies arc now on the wait
ing list fol the opening of the hospital
All Of them are under three years Of
age.