The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-09-14
CAMPAIGN To SAVE
BABIES, MOTHERS
FEDERAL cHILDREN'S BUREAU
is WORKING HARD TO END
DEPLoRABLE CONDITION.
FINDS CARE SOLVES PROBLEM
Physicians and Nurses Are Employed
TO Travel over the Country and
Give to Parents the instructions
and Service They Need.
Ru LANES p HoRNApAY

and service Iney Need
By JAMES p. HoRNADAY
Washington. --Accordmg TO the lat
est statistics in the hands Of the fed
eral childrcn's bureau, each year In
the United States from 100000 to 25O
600 babies die in the first year of theli
lives. and about $4,000 mothers die
In bringing children into the world
There are nine countries where a new.
born babe has better chance of
growing to healthy childhood than III
America, and there are seventeen 9th
er lands where It is safer for a woman
to become a mother
With a keen appreciation OF TINS
situation the Department Of Labor,
through its chldrens bureau, has
taken up the difficult task Of saving
the lives Of thousands of babies ana
mothers who die unnecessarily in this
/ country.
The nation this year has Invested
+ SI.2IOOOO in the enterprise, $4,000 OF
which viii be used by the Department
! of Labor for It's administrative work,
and the balance will be allotted
among the states. All of this money
goes directly for service and instruc-
tlons TO mothers and babies The
various states designate the state
agency which will handle The funds
/ and do the work. These agencies sub
mlt their pIans for maternity ana in
fancy aid TO the federal board Of
maternity and infancy hygiene, com
no.ed If the chief OF the chlldren's
bureau. the surgeon general Of the
T-nitod States public health service
and the United States commissioner
of education.
care ls Solution OF Problem.
Tho childrop's bureau has made OK
,.rsrro studies of mortality among in
s,r,s and mothers I'm various
c,t,os women associated with the bu-
roo, bovn teI,en nm the problem Of
i,,r,rt rortalitv. IN human way
,.or5tpo fine cold statistical method
and tr,cfro infant social civic and
..,,,,,,io conditions These women
1,,,.o rnochnd the conclusion that #
~, ,,udrop gro we'll horn and well
.,5 ror ,bo dootbs among infants
,,..,il ~, pooIfgibIe
ug,a solution of this problem Of
-o,.,n, rrothnrs and babies. the in,
I ,.,s,frot,rs If fine cbildrpp's bureau
rara found &c care Proper living
,5.u,,. and nronar medical and
,,,r.r,,, attention for the mother. both
horaro and after fine child is born. and
,,ranor Nursing for fine child in its
,ncn,cc oro +ba urinary objects Of
tLa oomno,on IN save mothers and
harios
mia ootbars and fathers Of the
oon,tr, tbo ovncrtencc of tho OK.
nort, ~ tbo cbiIdran's bureou shows
a,, oo,,or fo,. holm In Western
ato,, ,,boro tbo hurnou hold nm in.
rort welfare conferences mothers and
r,tl,r, drovo ornot distances and
a,n,,,oa amt ,ver NIGHT In order that
.Lar MIGHT lao surn their babies would
,aon,ro attention In two counties Of
tts etotn ,yhara an intens study
,,.os ,,,odo two thirds of rho motbors
,.oro yyfthort medical care when they
bror,bt thnir children into the world
r,nrno ,roro entirely alone and forty.
,,,, b,d opI, thair husbands with thom
,.Lon mar babies we're born
child we,far. speciaI
T,ro rhildron,s burcan has fornd
ana oroct,va means Of carrviuo the
-, ~ ma booItb IN tho rotbore
and rothors IN tho remote districts
,,,horo medical core is orten uncor.
taIn or dnIorod Tho hurcou has
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,,.,..,,.,r.+tn., bnv cbrd u.aIrorn
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,,,nr,rarcos for uothnrs and hohio.
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a " oh,,Morr
''' ,r,a onniIc,tiop Of modern hueinoey
,.n,,a,,Ing IA welfare agencies md
w.. rn.roosod raturns an tbn funds
W." ,nn,ntod orocted tborehv AFRO Jo.
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