The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-11
"AXLS CLUBD
Of Birmingham Edited By Mrs. Shelby G. Taylor

Inflated to bursting point must be the babies of Birmingham. For, have they not held the center of the stage, with the spot light focused right upon their adorable selves all, all the past week?
 It has been pre- eminently Baby Week." No other circumstance or happening could have diverted public attention or distracted it from this from one clinic or health center to another revealed as no mere hear say could have impressed the real import of the task under way.
 Each center was veritable hornets nest of work. Stimulated by the zest of real interest and love-. Physi- clans, nurses and member of the Axis welfare department working In earnest unison at their respective tasks so near to heart. Nowhere was there a diminishment of this en- thusfasm or zeal Wonder If any branch of humanitarian pursuit could have solicited such whole hearted concerted effort? The enterprise was concisely plahned and certainly con ducted with dispatch. Centers bore the combined semblance of miniature clinic and office. All in the scheme of pre- arranged details. 4
 Babies were handled with unbe-
 
 Der into account. The clerical end quite measured up to the standard of the scientific. There was glim- mer of heart which filtered through the work. because it existed. pro Voked by the cause-For the Babys good-The Child's Welfare'
 A safe estimate indeed of fifteen hundred babies and young children shared the benefits of the scientific examinations during the week. Eff teen hundred mothers in this city are so much the better off and better in- formed now than this time last week. This on account of the splendid op- portunity made possible by the city health department. aided by the wei fare branch and our Axis club.
 Normal babies and little ones were passed on while others needing spe- cific attention were given same and put in the way of having these same skilled notice continued. Think of such altruistic work One little colored boy was found to be suffer ing with an acute attack of 'pneu- monia." Immediately this was noted and the physicians directed and in- structed the nurse to follow up" the case, which she has since been doing. Many other cases, not so seri- ous. are having the advantage of follow up nurse on the trail of the
  All this vigilance directed against the spread and toward the control of conta geous and other diseases of childhood With all this merciful work along the lines of preventative medicine. what hopes may we not have for the future race?
 Herbert Hoover claims if we "grap- pie with the whole child situation for one generation, our public health, our c affipiRnRV. nothing the moral character, sanity and sta bility of our people would advance three generations in one"
 Thus in the very question of Teeth" These essential factors are determined before birth. They are the body, and if not well-constructed and made sound by prenatal correct diet. all the vigor of tooth brush; despite the valuableness of this toilet accessory or necessity, goes for little. So. all the work along educative hygiene has to future bearing more so than possibly a present one. The instructive "dots" given mothers at the centers during the week. should be most illumining and valued. A measure to insure the welfare of her little one and her own peace of mind.
 A bit of romance or the after glow of one was brought to light at one of the centers. One of the first babies to be registered was one of a little mother who was one of the early pioneers along the work of child welfare. It was during the hard first days when through the efforts of the Epworth League of the First Methodist church funds were made possible for the establishment and conductfon of the first health cen- ters This very little mother then gave freely of her time and energy to this work-a one dearly cher ished by her, A side partner in the same mission with kindred interest fell an attracted victim to his CO., workers charms, and thus culmin- ated a charming romance built upon