Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1935, Page 13

COLUMBIA CLINIG PLAYS VITAL ROLE Wages Vigorous Campaign to Cut Infant Mortality Rate Here. ‘The infant mortality rate in Wash- ington last week was the second highest of cities along the Eastern seaboard, and only 10 of all the cities for which the Bureau of the Census gathers figures had higher rates than the Capital. Only five cities had a higher in- fant mortality rate than Washington for the year 1933, and only five of comparable size had as high a still- birth rate as Washington. The rate of death among the chil- dren less than 1 year old has be- come one of the most critical prob- lems facing modern medicine. Sur- geons, governments and citizens have organized to combat it and lower it. Improved and expanded hospital facilities and educational opportunity for expectant mothers are two of the most needed methods of lessening the percentage of babies who die in their first year, the most crucial year of their existence. Clinic Wages Campaign. In Washington, the Infant Clinic of Columbia Hospital for Women is waging more strongly than any other institution a campaign aimed at mak- ing available to every mother or ex- pectant mother in the city informa- tion and care that will insure a stronger, healthier baby, one more likely to survive the first few months of its harsh existence. Last year patients made 11,806 visits to the clinic. They were given physical examinations. They were taught the responsibilities, duties and general physiologoical problems at- tendant upon motherhood. The poorest were provided with transportation to and from the clinic. | Some were given layettes if their finances prevented their purchasing them. They were provided with maga- zines to while away their empty hours. The social service department of the clinic, which includes one full- time worker and 23 part-time volun- teer workers, paid 2,213 calls to the | Lomes of patients registered to see that the lessons taugnt at the clinic were followed religiously. The effect of this endeavor is to fit the mother properly for the birth of the child and to fit her to care for the baby during its tender initiation into the weys of its separate existence. The most marked result is an instant decrease in the infant mortality and the rate of stillbirth among the group | 80 taught and supervised. The clinic is run by Miss Linda Woods under the direction of the Women'’s Board of Columbia Hospital, headed by Mrs. Sydney Taliaferro, to whom the clinic's recent amazing progress is due. Its money comes from the Community Chest, the| Thrift Shop, assessments against members of the board and from the | small fees asked, when payable, from | the patients who come to the clinic. Facilities Increased. The clinic in 1920 was a two-room establishment under one worker. To- | day it has eight rooms, fitted with | baby scales, baby baskets, beds, clos- | ets, medical apparat®§ and other | equipment necessary tc perform its function. Moreover, the clinic attempts to do far more than merely provide for | bare care and instruction of the | patients. Mrs. Taliaferro said in her | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE‘ 23, 1935—PART ONE. Long Life for Babies Born Here Fsi joomy m 9 mw m | I s jmay ma The high infant mortality rate in the District of Columbia fades among the families who avail themselves of the pre-natal and obstetrical care offered for a pittance by the Pre-Natal Clinic at Columbia Hospital, above. under the care of a personal physician and hence might leave herself wholly unprepared to attend properly to her own highly specialized wants and those of the baby, who under these conditions might be unable to survive its first year. Supervisor Is Author. Miss Woods, the supervisor, is so expert in her work that her new book, “You and Your Babies,” written with the wealth of experience she has had at the clinic, is prefaced by a note from Dr, Sterling Rutfin, one of the country’s most famous obstetricians. But the clinic’s work is limited. It cannot force attendance of prospec- tive mothers of whose existence it is ignorant. It cannot care for every poverty-stricken expectant mother who requires the type of care it offers. Not only is similar expansion needed in other hospitals, but a municipal service is urgent to prevent the birth of any baby under unhygienic and un- scientific conditions which would tend to reduce its expectation of survival of earliest infancy. The maternity supervision should be divided for those groups which can pay nothing, or practically noth- who would refuse to accept outright charity, yet whose moderate income | would preclude possibility of care by | & family physician. Leading citizens of the District sug- gest that Gallinger and Freedmen's Hospitals institute free maternity and pre-natal clinics, while the private hospitals, Providence, Emergency, Georgetown and Garfield, follow Co- lumbia’s lead and establish clinics for the part-pay patient, whose prob- lem is more serious than that of any other group. For the low-salaried cit- izen is usually an earnest citizen whose progeny are held well worth raising. Members of Board. Working with Mrs. Talliaferro are these other members of the Women'’s Board of Columbia Hospital: Mrs. Duncan Lawrence Groner, first vice president; Mrs. Willlam R. Smed- berg, second vice president; Mrs, Charles Carroll Morgan, third vice president; Mrs. vice president; Mrs. Paul Sleman, re- cording secretary; Mrs. D. Buchanan | corresponding secretary, | and Mrs. Robert V. Fleming, treas- | Merryman, urer. Mrs. Frank C. Baldwin, Mrs. Earl | Biscoe, Mrs. Charles H. 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BOYS' CLUB CAMP PLANS ANNOUNGED Director Fyfe Looks te Greatest Season in His- tory at Camp Reeder. Plans for the greatest season in the of Camp Reedér, the Boys' -/ Club of Washington camp, were an- nounced yesterday by Charles M. Fyfe, managing director of the Boys’ Club and who will be director of the camp this Summer. Camp Reeder is located on West Hatton Farm, Charles County, Md., 52 miles from Washington. ‘The camp has been completely re- modeled and many improvements made. Two new log cabins, donated by Frank R. Jelleff and Foster M. Reeder, member of the board of trus- tees of the Boys’ Club of Washington, and an addition to the dining hall are among the improvements. All cabins used in past years have been relocated so as to put them back among the trees with plenty of shade. Bathing George H. Myers, Mrs. John 8. Me- Clure, Mrs, Malcolm McConihe, Mrs. John E. Parker, Mrs. James H. Pat- ten, Mrs. Clarence W. Perley, Mrs. Stanton C. Peelle, Mrs. Frank L. Pur- don, Mrs. Mary G. 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Regular registered members of the Boys’ Club of Wash- ington, tte Georgetown Branch and the Nortreast Boys' Club are eligible for camp registration In addition to Fyfe as director, the staff this year consists of Arthur Fyfe, assistant director; Joseph Heiser, water front and head life guard; John Jankowski, director of athletics; Al- bert Suraci, camp doctor; John Zauner, in charge of Nature study; Mrs. Cora G. Fyfe, stewardess. Camp counselors will be John Mc- Cartoey, Carl R. Hill, Mario F. Gre- gorio, Joseph Wallace, Arthur Meu- show, Lindsay Branson, Creighton Allen and Frank Tolzman. Jersey Club to Entertain. Senator and Mrs. Moore and Rep- resentative and Mrs, Sutphin will be the guests of the Third Congressional District Club of New Jersey on a moonlight sail down the Potomac on the City of Washington, June 28, nuhn—‘h-olln—c? teeth , discarded jewelry, o have been buy! SPOT _CASH. U. 8. 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