The evening world. Newspaper, July 1, 1903, Page 3

a STARTS GREATES BATTLE FOR BABES Health Department Begins with . Increased Vigor New Fight to Reduce Summer Mortality Among Infants. ‘AFTER EVENING WORLD PLAN Inspectors Will Visit All Homes Where There Are Babies and Will Be Followed Where Necessary by District Physiclans and Nurses. The battle for the baubles has begun, and the Board of Health's infant corps has started {ts work of saving the lives of helpless little ones, among whom the mortality problem is an appalling one In the summer time. This year's work of the Health De- partment is along more comprehensive lines than ever before and follows the system established fifteen years ago when The Evening World's fund for sick babies was started. Into the heart of the east side and through all New York the infant-saving corps of inspectors, physicians and nurses will go every day during the gummer months and will help carry out the strenuous battle for infant life which The Evening World's Sick Babies’ Fund corps of free physicians has been waging for years, When The Evening World started its fund and organized {ts corps of skilled physicians, whose duty it was to go through every tenement and every dwelling of the poor to look for ailing bables, its work met with most gratifying results, and the number of babies treated free by the pioneer in baby-saving during the summer months has averaged 20,00 a year. Follows the Pioneer, ‘The great campaign of the Heelth Department which has just begun fol- lows out practically in all respects the methods of The Evening World. Tho object of the campaign is to re- @uce the mortality among infants and young childcen during the summer months, and by personal visits to moth- ers or guardians of childrenjto instruct them how to properly care for artificlally fed infants. The great battle in life-saving which Yhe Evening World's corps of physl- clans has had to conduct has been largely for bottle-fed babies, and the dread summer complaints which carry Off these children have been traceable in most cases to improper feeding and bad milk. “It 1s our object," said President Led- erle, of the Board of Health, “to not only caro for the sick. but to prevent sickness, My whole heart {s In this work, and I shall remain in the city all summer to help carry it on successfull We have augmented our last year's work by adding nurses and rave gotten our system into a good working basis And hope to saye many more lives this year than ever befors.” "More than 60,000 babies come under our care,” said Dr. J. J. Cronin, “for we have already 45,000 births recorded since last August, and when our inspectors make their rounds they will undoubtedly find cases that have never been re- corded, “We have placea the age Ilmit at one year for the cases we will look after, and our object is to not only cure the fick, but reach the mothers before they have become Ill-advised in regard to feeding and nursing their bables. We want to teach them the proper way of modifying cow's milk for feeding in- fants and caution them against the vse of prepared baby food and con- densea milk." - Women in Corps, ‘The summer corps of the Health De- partment consists of medical inspectors And nurses, and among the physictans who will devote thelr time to thls great eampaign there are four women. First there is the medical inspector, who is Dr, Blauvelt, ‘Then the assistant mecical inspector, Dr. J. J. Cronin; six attending district physicians, Dr. 8. J. Baker, Dr, Francis Murray, Dr. Francis Butler, Dr. Jacob Sobel. Dr, William E. ‘Weber and Dr Leopold Marcus, There are twenty-seven inspectors and twenty nurses. The city has been lald out into 160 istricts, and every district les under the special supervision of a certain doctor, a crrtain inspector and nurse. It is the duty of the inspectors to enter all homes and find the conditions under which bables are living, If there 1s no private physician in the family one of the district physicians !s notified to call at that number. The Inspector warns the parents of the danger to in- fants of any summer complaints and antl the arrival of the physician orders all food stopped @nd nothing but bolled water given the child. A printed cir- cularand card giving instructions to the caré of children is left in every home visited, “Once in a whili said one of the Inspectors, ‘where the people do not un- derstand, we meet with a little trouble, Dut in nearly all cases the gratitude of the mothers who see help for their ables in sight is touching.” Advice for Mothers, Tm the case of nursing bables mothers @re instructed as to the proper food they themselves should take, and good @dvice in regard to bathing, fresh alr and sleeping 1s! given. Every inspectut turns in a report of his wort once a week, and the inspec- tors must report personally once a week also, The work of the inspectors is a comprehensive one, as not less than twenty babies must be visited “@ day, and whenever an infant cannot be found et an address every effort must be made to find it, The inspectors, who commenced their ‘work yesterday, have as yet turned In ‘@ celatively emailer number of cases of elckness than last year. “I have already visited over fifty eases,” eaid Dr. ¥. B. Ennist, one of inspectors, ‘and the children are ‘THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY J, WOMAN’S CORPS OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WHO ARE TO TAKE CARE OF THE POOR SICK CHILDREN THiS SUMMER. The hot weather will see us working harder than ever, though.” The district inspector fills out a card for every case visited, which gives a complete history of the child, from its nationality. to the minutest defect in its physical condition. If a child 1s unusual- ly sick a detailed statement ts sent in to headquarters and special care is given. After the inspector has notified the district attending physician that his visit 1s required at a certain number the bavv fs given medical care and a card Is filled out by the physician and !s also forwarded to headquarters. Instruc- Ulons are left for the district nurses by the district physicians, #0 that a com- plete chain in the care of a Ilttle pi- tent 1s maintained. Nurses a Departure, The introduction of nurses Into the Health Department's care of babies dur- ing the summer months is a new de- parture. The supervising nurse !s Miss Lina Rogers, of the University Settle- ment on Henry street. Under her are the district nurses. When a baby is sick the district nurse stays with the Ittle patient until the district physician deems it advisable for her to leave. All this time the baby Is receiving the most sclentific care that can be given and by the administration of proper foods and medicines {ts chances for life are increased 100 per cent. in unsanitary and miserably crowded districts of the east alde. ‘The system the Health Department has effected, following, as it docs, The Evening World's Baby Fund work 1s caleylated to reach every infant in the city of New, York. ‘The rules governing the inspectors, district phyalcians and nurses are such that ‘President Lederle, of the Board of Health, can follow in a moment the work of any of his assistants. “Tt takes a great deal of time,”" sald Dr. Baker, who served all last year, as ar Mspector, but is e district physician now, ‘to ascertain just how and where the bables are in a tenement, for though the inspectors start out with the list of babies in their district there come up many new cases. Of course these are justantly reported to headquarters, Follow Instruction “When we enter one of the tenements and examine the bables the real work begins. Many of the mothers cannot understand English, but when they find out that we are there for the good of their children they are most willing to do what we tell them. “Bathing and sanitary conditions are the hardest thing to impress upon the people of the east side, and these two conditions are of vital importance in saving infant life." “In summing up the baby campaign," Dr. Lederle said, “we can give the sick babies medical ald, but we can go still further, we can try to prevent sickness, We intend to study the conditions sur- rounding babies which lead up to sick- ness. By studying food and its effect upon the death rate we will gather valuable statistics, It {s absolutely sur- prising the kind of foods that are fed to little bables. We expect to do great’ goo through the fact that our work will be carried on in connection with the recreation plers, fresh air outings and all the things that tend to improve Ife in the congested districts. On each reoreation pler there will be a dis- pensary, and a district inspector and nurse will be assigned there. This dis- pensary will be open from 8 until 6 P. M. Our inspectors will Investigate the various places where milk is sold, and especially where it has been sold and used in the case of a sick child. The work of The Evening World's Sick Bables’ Fund Corps of Free Physi- clans has, in the past years, shown such great results that the effort of the Board of Heaith in the same line cannot help but reduce the number of deaths among babies from the dread diseuses of summe: WEDDING JOURNEY FIFTY YEARS LATE. But Mr. and Mrs. Mahon WilI Doubt- less Enjoy it None the Less for That Reason, Hugh Mahon, seventy-three years old, and lis wife Ellen, seventy, who have been murried fifty years, will start on their weding tour fo-day From the home of their daughter and son-i W, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Murphy, at No. 220 Camelia street, Long Island City The elerly couple came to Ula coun- try fron, Ireland when they were ten and thirteen years old. Thy had gone to the same school in Ireland and were sweethearts from the time they made mud ples. ‘They were married as soon as Mahon scured employment as a bookbinder. Their slender means, however, were barely enough to live comfortably on and the wedding tour was put off, From year to year they put off until at last they had for- gotten all about ft, A few days ago he couple celebrated thelr golden wedding and during tho eeiebsation it sudenty, occurred (to them that they had never bad a wedding tour, They at once decijted to remedy thle, pean fad starc®® to-day.on a et: ks Jet Gade) oe Monae BROKAW 10 FIGHT MAS, POILLON'S SUIT Millionaire Clubman Denies that He Had More than Friendly Interest in Woman Who Sues for $250,000, W. Goutd Brokaw, the millionaire cubm an, characterizes the $250,000 breach-of-promise suit brought against him by Mrs. Katherine Polllon as an attempt at blackmail, Rather than submit to it, he says, ho wil flght the case through all the courts, even though it should cost his fortune. “I befriended this woman,” sald Mr. Br okaw to-day, “and this is my re- ward. Her story has no foundation tn fact, and the sult ts the most disgrace- ful attempt at blackmail that has ever come to my knowledge. Had Friendly Interest, “I never had more than a friendly in- terest in her, and never intended to marry her or asked her to marry me. She has letters in her possession pur- Porting to have been written by me ad- dressed to ‘My dear wife that {s to be." I make claim that these letters are for- Keries, “It 1s true that I did write some notes and that these notes started with the perfunctory ‘My Dear.’ Handwriting Expert Kinsley has examined some of these notes and has declared that the words following “My Dear’ were written by another hand than mine. “Lesa than two-months ago I secured her @ position in a Twenty-third street dry goods store at her own request, Dut when she learned the duties of the posl- tion she refused to take it on the ground that ‘the work was too exacting. I oan show that my interest In her was purely of a friendly nature, “Iwas not unprepared for the sult, ‘A short time ago she made a demand upon ‘me for $10.00, saying that unless I gaye her the money she would give a newspaper a story that would place me in an embarrassing and compromising Position. When I refused to give her money she carried out her threat. ou may rest assured that I shall fight this thing to the bitter end. I am prepared to show that her assertions about the wedding ring, the jewelry and the letters are fabrications, and I would bo unjust to myself if 1 did not contest the case with all the vigor I can com- man MACLYN ARBUCKLE NOW A BENEDICT. BOSTON, buckle, actor, and Miss Eliza don Carlisle, of Waddington, were married in Grace Episcopal Church at Newton, Mr, Arbuckle's former homo, and left for Waddington, where thoy will remain until Mr, Arbuckle’s season opens in September. ‘Only a few intimate acquaintances were at the wedding. “Mr. Arbuckle last played in New York at the Garrick The- atre in “Skipper & Co., Wall Street. Mass., July 1.—Maclyn Ar- th Shal- He Is to play the leading. role tn a rural drama, “The County Chairman,” by George Ade. SURE NOW The Truth About Coffee, It must be regarded as a convinc- ing test when a family of seven has used Postum for five years, regain- ing health and keeping healthy and strong on this food drink. This, family lives in Millville, Mass., and the lady of the household says: “For eight years my stomach troubled me all the time. I was very nervous and irritable and no medicine helped me, “I had about given up hops until five years ago next-month I read an article about Postum Cereal Coffee that convinced me that coffee was the cause of all my troubles. I made the Postum carefully and liked it so much I drank it in preference to cof- fee, but without much faith that it would help me, “At the end of a month, however, I was surprised to find such a change in my condition, I was stronger in every way, less nervous, and at the end of six months I had recovered my strength so completely that I was able to do all of my own house- work. Because of the good Postum diu us I knew that what you claimed for Grape-Nuts must be true and we have all used that delicious food ever since it first appeared on tho market, “We have seven in our family and I do the work for them all and I am sure that I owe my Strevgth and health to the steady use of your fine cereal food and Postum (in place of coffee). I have such great faith in Postum that I have sent it to my relatives and I never lose a chance. to speak well of it.” Name fur- nished by Postum C-., Batile Creek, Miob. Teo cold Postum wit delightful a dash ‘esoler” for extenrion.of time on the $7,500.00 ot} Send for particulars by mail of” SOUGHT 10 DIE WITH HER BABY Abandoned by Her Husband, a Woman Supposed to Be Mrs. M. R. Smith Turns on the Gas in the Effort to End Two Lives Terrifi Imp Mrs, who Penniless and atandoned by the father of the child to which she gave birth two | She thought the baby would die with her, but in her death struggle» she loosened her arms and the child roiled to the floor, ‘The providence that of Its mother was discovered. | ured to i In the driving rainstorm last evening | *!t5?* the young woman sought shelter at/of groai Mrs. Barrett's. It Is @ furnished-room ! house, where no women are taken, but Mrs. Barrett had not the heart to turn flanked leased from the Sloane Maternity Hos- pital and had been walking the streets all day with the child in her arms, not knowing where to go for the night. Mrs, Barrett felt buch pity for her that she gave up her room to her and slept herself on a dining-room lounge. This morning, when she went eoEest to arouse one of her roomers, smelled gas and traced the odor to the strange woman's room. The door was untocked, and ou the bed lay the woman dead. She had not removed her cloth- ing. Under the bed, completely hidden by the covers which had protected it from Reduce from a the Civ! ters, Two were addressed to Mrs. M. R. Smith, care of Mrs, George How- Cecilia Levy, the operating table and for several d Was delirious ax Last night Mr. Levy went to he found her writhing on the woman away in the storm with the|carbolic acid and one Alleged Fraud, Court for Reinstatement. Jefferson Deevey, FEAR OVERCOMES MOTHER LOVE ied at» Prospect of an ending Operation, Mrs. Levy Clasps Her Baby to Her Breast and Drinks Poison. years old, . Adolph, at weeks ago in the Sloane Maternity Hos- | N° avenue, died in the J pital, a young woman. who may be Mrs. Heed Wright Hospial to- day as tho re- M. R, Smith, according to letters founa Sut Of taking a mixture ot upon her, Killed herself by inhalipg Il- ete ee poe during the night, luminating gas et the home of Mra.) 1) i eneine in be et Levy be Fifth street, to-day. ation. She had a pecullar horr hysterical to visit his sister, When he returned watches over the helpless caused It to » return: roll undor the bed, where the coverlids rear aahieaa len found his wife Kept the gas from it, and tt was alive | Contuimgulyt “do ‘aucceedet in ee te and crying lustily when the dead body| ing hor and getting her te goth an adjoining room and went to wakened Inter by the sound 3 in his wife's room Rushing the bed lasping her baby to her breast, On a ble beside her was a smali glass on elther side with a bottle of hat had oi tained rat polaon. — 6he also had her enild in her arms. She took her in) nusband’s revolver with her in the bog and fed her. ‘The woman ate raven-| ''The woman was taken to the, howprel, ously, She sald she had just been re-| where sho died a few hours later. DEVERY FIGHTS TO GET BACK AS. CAPTAIN. d to Rank as Sergeant for He Applies to who was reduced captain of police to sergeant for alleged errors {| his police record submitted by the Police Department to 11 Service Commission ¢o-day the polsonous vapors, wes the little) trough his counsel, Abram I. Elk Infant. 6 applial to Justice eGlegerich in’ the 8u- ‘The woman left no word. to explain|preme oCurt, for a writ of mandamus to her wish to dle. Compe! the Civil Service, Commission and the Comissioner of Police to cer- The police found tn a eatehel she car-|firy to his name on the payroll of the ried some baby's clothes and four let-| Police Depantment as a captain. De- clsion was reserved, Assistant Corporation Counsel in opposing the motion sal Farley i that Deey ard, Cedarhurst, L. I. | The other two/had received, his certificate throug fraud, and whether It was his do Were addressed to the Sloane Maternity | fraud, and wheiher It was hie fraud oF Hospital. All were written in the same | {ie correct record been before the ex- hand and signed “Walter.” ‘The let-|aminer he would have never received the ters were postmarked Fairemont, | percentage that would have put him on W. Va. the eligible lst. q _1903.__ BABY COMPLICATES Formed Unorthodox Unior turns with Wife and Child. Just Annourced Their © a professo at Grinnell Co unity nd a nurse, 1 ons which tts 1 Wave of scandal hardly less than thi the wedding Herron's abandoning nis former wit nd mother of his four enildren in or. de Miss Carrie Rand. Dismissed from Church, become infatuated with ndowing a chali had teachings and after for him in Grinnell College, with her mother on a trip abroad. Herron waa dismissed from the Con gregational Church after he had nu aside his ft with Miss Rand, The ceremon Miss Rand announced the'r of marriage was of Herron It took place in the Sehu ment-house, No. 0 West sire 28, 1901, Herr: intentio! they had been Invite neement of his w man and wife,” he sald, Miss Ran repeated these words and then they ex of thelr ma'criage. alist ‘own, a So shester,” N. ¥., followed, with an “announcement,”’ as it, in which, among other Mube hi said; No Ring Nor Pledge. n. “Weare here to-day to announce t, the world the oneness of two huma: minieter, fests and produces somewth: swathes and animates the untverse,’ hond of reciprocal love, every law of right and truth. {n the ceremon: tn Maren of “dst ter, despite the sbctat Tesulted from his! an artist. Now the Quarre? Started. Baltimore American.) one you love “Darling,” he replied, your ‘prenenco { forget, all" — “You do, do yor eyes Nashta How tang are heiet (Tears, pleadings, nd the usual windup.) when I'm {i uns, BROWNING’ WITH PEPSIN. A ante, speedy cure for Hoadach: Nervoumiens, Sleeplessness, Brain Fatigue, tickness ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES. ywhere. 10e. and 20, All our energies are strained sale to a splendid close; hence the 600 Men's Suits, in blue, ) black and fancy worsted; made to sell at 10.90 & 7.50. *) Men's Blue Serge Suits, all fast color, fine tailored, some sutin'lined; 15.00 and 12,50 grade... 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Great bargains and Sennet Hats, $t $4.00 grades, 50c., 1.00, tire stock 4,00, > at 10.00 3.98 ‘Thin Sale, 10.00 | j graces all 10 P.M, ih, 235 BROADWAY, 69c, & 98c. Genuine Bal BL Shirts and Draw- grade, 34c. Linen Shirts and Drawers, $2.50 grade, 2.40 to bring this most successful and $2.00 grade, turer's finest Airtex 25 in fine Split Straw .00, $2.00, $3.00 and 1.50 & 1.90 of Meyer Simp- $5,00 and $6.00 THE HERRON MATCH The Socialist Clergyman Who! with Miss Carrie Rand Re-, COUPLE HAD NO WEDDING. Marriage, Without Ring or Pledge Thereby Ceusing a Wave of Scanda!—Her- ron Leit Wife and Four Children.) returned from Eu- 1 the Kronpring Wilhelm and are n to-day on thelr farm a uchon, N. J he Herron baby is interesting {nas ceremony by parents were united caused ton which was aroused by Prof. to Join his “disciple and aMnity," The young woman was an helress who Herron’s took him t wife and went to live y by which Herron and devising. a short address-telling the guesta that to hear the an- ne. We Intend Hving together hereafter plained that this constituted the cere- Ic Rev. William of Falhbit bit called ‘| 500 Dozen Imported Half Hose. « plain black and plain colors, jso fine domestic lace lisle thread, silk embroldered, at | 7c.- and mani- of the es- sence of that infinite love which which In conclusion he sald: ‘Inasmuch, therefore, as George D. Herron and Carrie Rand are by the that they are husband ‘and wife by ‘There was So) ring, nor pledge used tpn Herron's’ sis- vatractons which marriage mony, was wedded -by @ stmilar rile, “ane is Re said, ‘I'm the only On, explana- THE PHYSICIANS’ REMEDY. BROMO-VICHY We G 8TH AVE,, Bot. 40th & 41st H Sis, N.Y. 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