New Britain herald., 1918-01-17

many cases where a baby becomes sick and needs hospital attention and the physician in charge instead of sending the little one to our hosyltal advises the mother to take it to Hart ford to a hospital there. The anxiety and expense to the parents in being in different city from their baby i often times involves great hardshlps aside from not being able to see 1t | more often, and the nurse knowing the history of the case could give able advice as to it's condition.
 The Little Mothers classes dur1na the summer proved a great help ant incentive to the children that attend ed, for they visited a modern dalf farm and received much benefit from the following loSsonS:
 Bathing Baby.
 3Clothing Baby.
 Making Baby's Bed.
 ''Preparing Baby's Food.
 Selecting Baby's Food.
 First Aid to Sick Babies
 There are many cases where til ! mother has to work out and The Ldt tie M other has to take the place, and knowing these few fundamental tacts they will be of great benefit to her as well as to the baby under her care No doubt, more sCaSCS of thIS Kin will come to our attention as the me have to go to the war. The mothe will become the Wage-carner more an more, and it is just such condition we will have to face. We had in tended holding these classes durin this winter, but our facilities wer such, on account of cold and damp ness, we have been unable to do SC
 "The economic conditions are Vis ble, We feel, the past year in our in fant welfare work, for the bable. seem to be more delicate and haV much stomach trouble; so it seem from the. high cost of living tn mothers have failed to have the suff cient nouTishment and this has rd tiected upon the babies Our Wor the coming year, we hope, Will greater. as there is an opportunity fq a tremendous growth in our coSmo po1itan city. One station is not ade1 quate to reach the number 1t Should for those living in the east, south aho west do not profit by the station, as the distance is too great, and so we hope some means will arise to over | come this difficulty.
 From the Child's Bureau of Labor
 
 naire asking what steps were beine 1 taken in New Britain to conserve the lives of our little ones and suggesting | that much must be done by every city and the nation at this time and al during the war The nations abroad l as a whole, have been rather slow ] about conserving the lives of then l babies and have but recently come tC 1 realize the necessity and enor1nity o1 | the situation, and our own people are 1 now aiding them in this great human | itaran work by contributing toward | it. and so right here in New Br1talr l we must become awake to the sltua- ] ton, for we do not know how long
 these conditions will last. The com 1 ing year we will make 1t an eSpecla 1 effoHt to reach every infant We can 1 for there is nothing as helpless as 1 little child, and the humblest chile must have as good attention and care | as the more fortunate.
 l "Through the courtesy and interest 1 of Dr. F.. T. Ree>s in our work. he l applied to the board of finance for 1 an appropriation from the clty ana we received $250, which we greatly 1 appreciated as it helped us very ma ] terially, for we were able to have an | extra graduate nurse through the summer months. Since then we have 1 employed an experienced nurse as l there is so much work that one nurse cannot follow up all of the cases l alone.
 l At this time we wish to thank the l Rev. Warren F. Cook to whom we are 1 greatly indebted, who so generously contributed of his time and interest
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 tive and interesting illustrative lec- l ture on "The National Yellowstone
 park and the Grand Canyon of Arl" 1 Zona," for the benefit of the station and through his generosity inspired
 the public to give to the cause and so l thereby helped our treasury. l Many articles of furniture, cloth 1 ing, etc.. have been contributed the ! past year and the directors greatly i appreciate it and wish to thank each one as well as all societies, clubs and l individuals that contributed money
 so generously.
 "In closing we wish to thank Miss | O'Dell and the nurses that have car 1 ried on the work the past year. for l by their loyalty, devotion and unsel-
 fishness in the work it has progressed | and become a much needed and es- ] sential institution to our city and not ! alone upon the baby have they given help and advice, but have been a | friend indeed in may cases when l sound judgment and helping hand , have been needed, while a great so- | lace to an aching heart.
 Respectfully submitted,
 "(Signed) MRS. IRA. E. HICKS.' Miss O'DclFs Report.
 During the past year 25o cases | representing 23 nationalities have