Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-08
MAINTAIN HIGH
BABY STANDARD \
Fine Standard Set in Webster City is
Being Maintained Over the
County, Says County Chair.
Ill man Of Work.
WERE 11G BABIES AT JEWELL
Only Sixteen at Kamrar.-SOme Point.
ers on Care of Babies During
Summer.
WERE 116 BABIES AT JEWELL

SUMMER
The fine standard set by Webster
City babies during the weighing and
measuring campaign here is being
maintained throughout the county, ac-
cording to DR.. Mary Observation-Disclosures,
county chairman of the child welfare
work.
The local committee which has the
work in charge visited both Jewell and
Kamrar Saturday. At Kamrar, the
chairman was found to be out of town
and due to lack of arrangements only
sixteen babies were brought to the
clinic. Parents of children who did
not receive the test may have their
babes weighed and measured in the
Office of any Webster City physician,
the blanks being available.
Success at Jewell.
The clinic at Jewell in the after
noon was splendid success. One
hundred and sixteen babies were
weighed and measured and found to be
100 per cent of rosy, chubby, health
fulness.
The committee went to Stratford this
afternoon, leaving Homer to be visit
ed at a later date A clinic will be
held at Liberty Center Friday morn
ing with Mrs. Charles Greiner, the
Liberty township chairman, in charge,
and from there to Williams for the
afternoons meeting, which will be
open at 1 80 o'clock with Mrs. Bossen-
berger as chairman.
kamrar Babies.
The children weighed and measured
at Kamrar were:
George Allen Seamands.
Rex Ward Segar.
George Henry Hanson.
Roberta Malvina King.
Kenneth Keith King.
Clifford Maroni.
Jeannetta Frances Henderson.
Clarence Raymond Hinderks.
Dorothy Carson.
Doris Carson.
Robert Austin Alexander.
Laverne N. Stopplemore.
Lawrence William Stopplemore.
Elton Orville Brill.
Violet May Gilbert
Wilfred Raymond Swenson.
July is the first of four months of
special danger to babies and this year
war conditions make the summer
months particularly hazardous.
Death Rate High.
In July the deaths of children under
two from certain easily preventable
digestive diseases are usually more
than double those in June. By August
the deaths from diarrhea and enteritis
are three times what they are in June,
and the number does not fall again to
the June level until November.
WHlCu loWcl lAC lSSloI-
ance of children make these diseases
more threatening. This year the war
makes it more difficult and costly to
feed children properly, as they must
be fed if they are to be strong and
we'll to resist disease. At the same
time the toll of deaths on the European
battlefields makes it more necessary
to conserve babies lives.
This combination of circumstances
has made it imperative to increase
public and private work to protect
babies this summer. The national
baby test has pointed the special health
needs of the children in hundreds of
communities and found out the chill
dren who must have special care.
Communities are using various ways
to meet the needs revealed by the
test. One way is to advertise the
value and economy of using milk, even
at high price per quart, in feeding
children. AS one New England mother
said, milk is less expensive than doc
tors bills.
The one way which has proved most
effective in saving babies lives is the
employment of public health nurses.
The public health nurse both in the
city and the country can make gen.
oralIy known tho mOSt nOdern means
of guarding children's health. and the
children's bureau believes that the
places which are employing such
nurses to protect their children and
to meet the needs revealed by the test
can in that way do much to save
babies and thereby to meet the wars |
demand that life shall be conserved. |