The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-14
SINISTER BABY FACT NOW, SAYS| WOMAN DOCTOR
Are Mainly Responsible for Low Mortality,
 Claim BRING SCIENTIFIC HEALTH
Infant Death Largely Traceable to Ignorance
 of Mothers

SYRACUSE, April 14.-"The spin ster's baby of the proverb has ma terialized. It has arrived. The ideal of the proverb has become real"
 So today declares Dr. Theresa Ban- non, one of the best-known women physicians in the State, veteran of the World War, writer and attache of the Syracuse City Bureau of Health. Dr. Ramon continues:
 "The parent long ago was found wanting in some things, and the con- munity, the school and the church have taken over some of the care of offsprings.
 "The baby, however, was left in it's mothers arms, but now even she has been adjudged inefficient in it's care, and the spinster public health worker claims the baby. She goes further and seeks to supervise the child from it's conception and thus mitigate the burdens of Eve.
 Prom the medical profession the spinster brings instruction and ad- vice and warning based on the death record of babies who too soon re- turned to the angelhood whence they came.
 Public attention focused on this mortality record found the cause to Lo oh, a,1- z h part of the mother of her own need and that of her unborn baby.
 Nature Not at Fault
 Mature herself is not at fault, for women the world over safely bring forth and rear their young. Poverty, the cause of most social evils, is also here acquitted, for the highest infant mortality is not 'a4rong the poor.
 "The spinster asks for her baby expectant mother to observe a few rules in diet and work and rest. She asks her to consult physician early, especially before the coming of her first-born, which, more than any sub- sequent birth, imperils the mother
 "The firstborn, too, incurs greater risks than any other.
 Ut is asserted that 75 per cent of accidents is preventable by prenatal supervision.
 "The arrival of normal baby into the world of individual existence is a triumph, a victory over the powers of evil. Called from high heaven, it found parents reconciled at least to the burden of it's coming.
 'It is now the spinster's charge.
 Spinster Teaches Mother
 Many dangers surround the new born, most of which are avoided when the baby has it's natural food from it's mothers breast. The spinster must often persuade a mother to nurse her baby.
 After dominance of many years the artificial feeding of babies is passing.
 "The spinster knows from the vital statistics of her community that four babies artificially fed die to one breast-fed, that the babe at the breast develops normally with health and strength, while the other bears the handicap of diminished vitality all it's life long.
 'It is obvious that the deaths under one week of age are from prenatal causes or conditions at birth. Such conditions have long prevailed, un- affected by the general advance of medical service, but now attention and study of these conditions give quick results in diminished mortality.
 Prenatal care is, of course, ma ternal care, and thereby the death rate of women at childbirth is re- duced to the minimum. Supervision is, after all, possible only for the few who consent to consultation. It is a private matter, in spite of secratic treatise and State claims. It is a physiological process and not a surgi- cal or medical case for a specialist.
 "Its dangers are common to all wo- men of all races, but these dangers are incidental, not inevitable.
 "Still there is too much needless suffering and death among women and their babies, and it is the spin sters care to prevent them by preach ing simplicity of life for it's greater security and enjoyment and reward"