The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-04

ren's cots in the institute.
The institute is really quite Iii
situations, whose business it is to look
do everything for the protection of
motherhood.
The work Of the institute is under
the direction of the council consisting
of prominent medical men, jurists,
biologists, and social workers.
The institute has a considerable
number of departments.
There is a consultation room for
mothers with children, and pregnant
women.
Nurses Are Fully Trained
In the consultation room, there are
fully trained nurses who give the
mothers advice on sanitation, hygiene,
etc.
The waiting room is large, light
circular hall. It's walls are covered
with picture posters dealing with the
protection Of mothers and children.
The room next to it is the weighing
room which is provided with special
children's Weighing machine. Chill
dren suspected of suffering from in
fictitious complaints are not allowed
into the general waiting room, but are
taken to a special room divided into
separate little boxes. From the
weighing room the children 60 with
their mothers into large light cor
ridor, from which number of medi-
cal consulting rooms may be entered.
The waiting room for pregnant wo-
men is at the other end of the cor
ridor and has separate entrance. It's
walls too are covered with slogans
and posters.
In the same building is the chill
dren's clinic for special complaints
therapeutic, surgical, nervous and eye
and ear complaints). 1t has also a
special entrance.
In the main building there are:
surgical department with a splendidly
equipped operation room, Rontgen
rays cabinet, department for internal
complaints, clinic for nursing chill
dren and distributing department
for children under IL months. Here
the children are examined, kept under
observation and then sent to the spe-
cial mothers and children's homes.
In the large two-storied pavilion to
the right of the big avenue the ma
ternity department occupies the
first floor. 1t is well equipped and
very light, clean and comfortable. The
newly born babies are put in a spe-
cial ward away from their mothers.
On the second floor is the department
for pregnant women to which women
are admitted two months before their
confinement if they are in poor cir
cumstances. And then there is an
other department where mothers stay
with theid babies for two months after
their confinement, also in cases of
economic hardship. Here too, every
thing is clean, light and comfortable,
white furniture everywhere, slogans
and posters on the walls. Separate
bedrooms and separate dining-room.
Five of the pavilions are hotels for
mothers with their children, and then
there are three pavilions for children
only.
instruction Given Mothers
The mothers take duty in turn.
They look after the children, work in
the linen and in the dining room, and
are also encouraged to work in the
sewing room, which is in a separate
building
Mothers get instruction in santa
ton, hygiene, etc, and there is also a
school for the liquidation of illiteracy.
There is milk center in one of the
pavilions, which Is beautifully equip
ped.-a special room to which the
milk is delivered and where it in
cooled, a room for the sterilization of
milk and for the preparation of milk
foods. These rooms are provided with
special sterilizers, cooling appar
abuses and separators. Here too the
milk is bottled, There is a special
bottle-washing room and a waiting
room, also a laboratory with the ne.
cessary equipment for scientific work.
The outstanding feature Of this de-
partment is its scrupulous cleanliness,
which equals that of the operation
room At present this milk center pre-
pares about 80 different foods for
nursing children who have to be arti-
fcially fed.
The tasks and possibilities Of this
institution are enormous. The idea is
to train in the institute a cadre OF
mother and child welfare workers for
work in the country. The institute
most become center for the further
development Of the science Of bring.
ing up healthy children, science
which is yet in its infancy.
Social Work Big Task
Apart from scientific work the insti-
tute makes social work one OF its
main tasks. A motherhood and child
hood protection nucleus will be organ