The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-21
DR.. Annie Daniel, the East Sides Friend
Ministefing Angel
T ellis of Patients
Gratitude and Pleads
for Better Sanitation
and Care of Children

it to me. She was &earing fine silk gown
and a broad collar that looked as though it
were real lace. I'm taking care of her, he
told me with pride. He was lawyer with
a good practice. He was waiting to try
case in the Supreme Court that day.
l went into the court room to watch his
handling of it. The Judge complimented
him for the thorough manner in which he
did it."
care your patients gratefulf'
NEARLY always. There was that young
couple who married two years ago l had
attended the parents of both. They lived
across dark hall from each other, this
boy and girl. She went into store as
soon as she could get working papers. So
did he Because they were intelligent and
industrious both did well. Like all Of the
young folk of the East Side they helped
the folks at home They waited until they
had helped their families into better homes
and greater comfort before they became
engaged. The day before they were mar
ried they came to me and said: Or. Dam
iel, we have heard you say that you came
from Buffalo and that your parents are
buried there. Will you tell us their
namesf l did, and talked to them of my
girlhood before came to the College Of
the Woman's Hospital.
Holcred Her Father and Mother.
"They said they were going TO Niagara
Falls for their wedding trip and that they
would be sightseeing in Buffalo. While
they were there the bride wrote me that
they had visited the cemetery and laid
flowers on fathers and mothers graves,
"One day 1 tried to cross Fourth ave-
nue.. Twice I had to dodge the same au-
tomobile. l looked up at the driver and
saw friendly face laughing at me, and
realized that the manGuvres of the auto.
mobile were deliberate. l stopped. The
man at the wheel laughed.
"'You don't remember me, of course,
DR.. Daniel. But thirty years ago you
treated my father and mother, who were
poor immigrants. You may be sure 7
haven't forgotten yOu.'
you see, if year after year I were
treating the same families might be dis
eouraged about their progress, but I
don't. Or if 1 had the children and
grandchildren of those l used to treat
l. should become respondent for the fu-
ture Of the East Siders, but I don't The
poor immigrants of forty years ago are
well to do persons and taxpayers Of to-
day, or their children are Every one Of
them is worth the chance we give him."
"What arc the worst menaces of the
East Sidcw
Crowds to Lessen Shortly.
"The crowded and unsanitary conditions
of living and home manufactures" she
answered. "Since the landlords show no
signs of relenting the hope of the emf
grant is the exodus. With more and more
means of rapid transit you will see the
crowds on the East Side lessening.
'Thc other menace of home manufac-
ture is harder to check. We have been
trying to meet it with legislation, but the
last bill was left in the committee at AL
bany. Home manufacturing is serious,
because wherever it exists there is sure
to beehild labor. Children about years
of age are kept at work for four or five
hours at stretch"
"What can such baby do that is
gainfulf'
"Sew buttons and make artificial flowers.
had case of child of g. 1t had suf-
fered in the typhoid epidemic. As soon
as it was able to sit up it was put to work.
Not being strong enough to sew on but
tons they put it at threading needles. 1t
threaded needles for its elders until it
tainted.
Il found one baby IS months old help
ing its mother make artificial flowers.
The child assorted the cut forms from
which the flowers were made. I had two
cases of infantie paralysis in which both
victims, though slowly dying, were at