The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06

instructions to her captain. Efforts
to locate him tonight were unsuc-
cessful.
national asset. and, legitimate or
illegitimate, every effort is made to
keep them alive and bring them to
manhood. They have more than two
thousand children's bureaus which
watch over the little ones. They have
asylums and hospitals which take
care of the poor, and there are homes
of which the married mother can
go before the birth OF her child and
can say for a period of two years,
earning her living by doing sewing.
an art which is taught her. The OBJ
ject is too keep the mother and baby
together. If the mother had to work
outside for he living, she would
it wnere she could see ii and sell
dom. While she is a work In the
home, the nurse takes care of the
children and everything } done to
make them healthy and happy. An
other reason for '.eeping the mother
and child togethe- is that the father
of the child often visits the mother,
and iE many c es a marriage results.
| saw an exhibition of the sewing
the wonen do. The work Is excel
lent. 1t consists mostly of garments
for children and babies.
Babies In Glass Cas- y.
Baby hospitals are to he found here
and there all over Germany They
are OF Grated after the most modern
child-health methods and fro~l them
soeseout propaganda as to the car
ing for babies which reaches every
family in the republic They send
out picture postals with German poe
try on them directing attention to
the faults and virtues of certain
ways of child rearing and some of the
pictures are In duplicate telling you
just how not to handle your off
spring. They give instructions as to
cows and as to everything under the
sun that has to do with = farm
ing.
Take for instance. the model of all
baby hospitals here In Berl I. 1t is
known as the Observation-Disclosures
Haus and at its head is Professor
DIR. Langstein, the foremost baby
specialist OF Europe. Here the babies
are kept in glass cases. the rooms
are shut off, and the breath of
visitor Is not allowed to get near the
mouths of the little ones.
BcrIin.s Model infant Hospital
This hospital Is in the heart of the
city and is one of the finest of the
institutions of its kind. 1t was
built before the war. when money
was plenty and it has all the APP
plfances that modern science can
furnish. I visited it Yesterday In GO
ing through l was permitted to look
into the rooms, hut only through a
glass set in each door. The reason
for this is to guard against any con-
tagion that might come to the babies.
This precuutfon is acarrled to such
an extreme that the nurses who
n
allowed do SO only with a mask
which covers both nose and mouth
and prevents their breath coming
In contact with the child. Nearly
every baby was enclosed in glass
screens so that 1t could not affect
the other babies in the same room:
and some of the rooms were filled
with incubators where the babies
have just the right heat and other
conditions to prevent them from
dying. Indeed, If a baby should
draw its first breath in this hospital,
l doubt that 1t could die II 1t would.
Boarding Babies at Five Cents n Day
one floor of the hospital IS devoted
to the healthy babies and another to
the sickly ones There are rooms
of different classes, ranging in price
from fifteen to five cents per day ac-
cording to the rank of the patient.
The first-class rooms which cost fiji
teen cents are like those of any large
private hospital, and they are fitted
up for one baby only. In the five
cent rooms several women may sleep
after the birth of their babies; in the
fifteen cent ones only one mother.
AS I went through the halls saw
number of women who were ex-
pecting babies. They come to the
hospital and work for their board
DUNG this time. Some of them
were carrying food.
This Kaiserin Augusta Victoria
Haus has fourteen wet nurses. and it
makes specially of having a nurse
for each child. All the nurses must
keep on their nose masks.
In the milk kitchen l saw women
sterilizing hundreds Of bottles. and
in the chemical laboratories the doc
tors were Analysing and investigating
every kind of food and other things
that has to do with the health of the
children. In the X-ray room child,
not more than one month of age, was
lying under the camera. 1t was be-
ms treated according to new
method for curing a certain disease.
Raising Baby Chi@pannee
The museum of this baby hospital
is interesting. 1t has exhibits OF
everything connected with infant
care and embarrassing, including a
the child in works of fine art, and
also all that has to do with child
feeding, clothing, and diseases of
various kinds. An interesting thing
in connection with the museum is
chimpanzee which was born in the
Berlin geological garden. Its mother
died and the hospital took charge of
this big baby monkey and weaned it
on bottle milk. 1t has grown to fun
size and seems very happy IN spite
of the fact that the doctor had to
amputate it's right arm This was
because the chimpanZee, when grab
bling at nut handed it by visitor,
caught its arm between the two iron
bars of the cage and in trying to pull
it out broke it in such a way that am
putation was necessary.
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Fighting Poverty
What | have written is the bright
side of the baby picture, 1t has its
dark side as we'll. Just now the pow
erty of Germany hangs like pail
over infancy. Thousands of families
are on the edge of starvation, anu
their children are underfed and un-
derclad. l remember sentence OF
Nietzeche. the great German advo-
cate of war as the upbuilder OF ma
tons. He said children, who pre-
fer sweetmeats to bread, destroy their
digestion" If Nietzsche were alive
he could see no such danger now, for
| DEATHS