The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1922, Page 28

Are RTE Playgrounds, By Eleanor Schorer. Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World), 7 'Prese Publishing Company HE first step in the task of restoring the health of New York City children af- fected by whooping cough will be taken . next Monday by The Evening World Kiddie Klub Country Fund, with the help and co-operation of the Board of Health. On that day Health Commissioner Copeland will open the Baby Welf ¢ stations in the city for the registra- tiom. of whooping cough patients who will then be admitted to the Kiddie Klub Country Fund yuarters at Riverside Island, where they wi'! be kept until their cheeks are rosy again and their eyes glow. All o: the ex- penses of making these boys and girls well:and strong will be paid by the Kiddie Klub Country Fund and the city, through the Board of Health, which will furnish the dormitories and all ef the facilities of Riverside Island whieh is in Long Island Sound, just off the east shore of the Bronx. “There is no more tmportant task before us than curing completely all ‘whooping cough cases in the city,” waif Dr. Copeland to-day. “And there fs no cause in which I am more heartily and vitally interested. The Evening World and ‘Cousin Eleanor’ of the Kiddie Klub have my highest regard and will have my most en- thustastic co-operation. As I said in my address at the Kiddie Klub Coun- try Fund Benefit in the Astor Theatre last February, the very children who need fresh afr most are the ones who fre barred from getting it. All of | the out-of-door funds heretofore de- vise@, and I am in favor of every one of them, are strict, and advisedly #0, Yo their regulations that no children having a contagious disease be ad- mitted. This precaution is taken to 0s protect the other children, consequent- by well children are taken to the coun- | try and sick ones are left behind. “No disease is more racking and than whooping cough, and pone is more insidious in its after- A very high proportion of hildren with whooping cough do not recoyér, and even a larger number de- velop tuberculosis. There is only one way to guard against the danger of tuberculosis, and that is to take the | ehild out of the crowded sections of | the gity and place him where he can have fresh air and sunshine, nutri- tious food and skilled attention. This is what the Kiddie Klub Country Fund will do. It has very properly taken ms its slogan ‘Save a Kiddie,’ "+ ‘The first group of children will start on their vacation at Riverside Island on Sunday, June 25, This will give parents an opportunity of accompa. nying the little patients to their des- ination, which is reached by a fleet f boats running from the foot of Hast 182d Street. The director of the Board of Health Hospitals, Dr. R. J. Wilson, and the physician in charge of the island, Dr. Thomas Joyce, are fitting up three modern, sanitary, Dbuildings to house the youngster ‘These buildings are fireproof, con- | erete structures embodying all of the | most modern equipment. medical and sanitary. Each of these dormi- tories will be in charge of a nursé at all hours, | ‘The sixty-nine Baby Welfare sta- tions of the city will be open dally, excépting Sundays, for the registra- tion of children. Children under three years of age will not be eligible. On Wednesdays und Saturdays following egistration doctors will call on the Mitte patients at ther homes. Dr. J. X. Blumenthal, who ts acting director Please fill out this AWhoopingCoughHavenforNew York Kiddies | Evening World Kiddie Klub, Aided by {f | Board of Health, Will Give Them Cool, | | Modernly Equipped Summer Home With _THE EVENING WORLD, THU:.SDAY, JUNE 15, 1922,' ‘e Va Nurses and Medical Care. patti of the Bureau of Child Hygiene, re- quests that mothers going to the sta tions to register will please NOT take the afflicted children, Registration may also be done by mail by filling out the blank on this page, which should then be sent to Dr. Blumen- thal at the Department of Health, No. 505 Pearl Street, New York City. Riverside Island is being turned in- to a veritable play garden for the children, Tall wire fences are being erected In front of each of the three buildings which will be occupied by the first kiddies who arrive. These outdoor playgrounds will be 75x100 feet in area and will be equipped with amusements suitable to the age of the children who will use them—sand piles and swings for the youngest, the three year old children, and see-suws and games for the older ones. Each building has also its indoor playroom to be used when the weather forbids Playing in the open. Here toys, games and books with which the children may amuse themselves will be found. Young women trained in the art of entertaining children will have care of the groups from morning until bedtime, The public fs invited to go and seo what is being done for the comfort and well-being of the children who will be in our care, Before you send your children come yourself and seo the welcome we are preparing for them. Before you contribute to the fund, realize the cause which your contribution will serve. Dr. Thomas Joyce, in FOR SICK-A-BED KIDDIES KY WHERE GLASS PARTITIONS fra FORM A SEPARATE RaoMI\ FOR EACH LITTLE PATIENT. AMONG THE GREENHOUSE POSIES. charge of Zz ONE OP THE FirepRoOF & DORMITORY BUILOINGS| WHICH THE CHILDREN WILL OCCUPY AT RIVER, S106 ISLAND. CHOOSING FLOWERS TO DECORATE THE BEDS:065 OF THEIR SICK -a- BED KIDDIE FRIENOS. LILIAN ESTHER PASOVALE, OR. Theos, JOvVCE AND cousm ELEANOR country funds, excursions and outings into the country to which well kiddies are invited. But the kiddie who has whooping cough may not mingle with his or her well brothers and sisters, The kiddie already weakened and run down by coughing and fever must stay and withstand as best he can 4 the additional tax the sweltering city € 1 ee a bigs T|FRESH AIR SUNSHINE AND MILD | puts on him. This ts we fate of the i EXERCISE BUILO UP THE YOUNGSTERS:|| child with whooping cough only. cr. -70 HOW YOUR $10 WILL SAVE A NEW YORK CHILD Seven children die of whoop- Ing cough In every one hundred eases, according to Commission- er Copeland's records. A high Proportion of the other ninety- three develop tuberculosis and waste away. The Kiddie Club Country Fund * of The Evening Werld and the Board of Health are planning to take one thousand children affileted with whooping cough to Riverside Island and keep them there until oured. Six weeks will be the average term, but no child will be dismiseed until he is well. It is estimated that a ohild can be kept six weeke for ten dollars. A fund of $10,000 Ie neo ry, nearly $2,000 of which has already been raised by the little members of the Kiddie Some one has thought of almost every other unfortunate kiddie. Children who have had scarlet fever, diph theria, measles, who have infantilo tuberculosis, who are crippled or or. phaned, all have been thought of by some one. Relief and rest has been provided for them by some lover of children, The whooping cough child alone has been forgotten, and the whooping cough child is the one to Riverside Island and its activities, will be happy to take interested groups or individuals on a tour of inspection through the immaculate dormitories, the dining rooms and play rooms, thy laundry, equipped to wash 100,000 pieces weekly, the kitchen, where every morsel of food will be prepared under the direction of an experienced To Register a Child with Whooping Cough : for Examination and Admission to the * Kiddie Club Country Fund at Riverside Island, dietitian, and the greenhouse where flowers are being grown to brighten the bedsides of the sick children and the play rooms of the convalescent ones, You will find that Riverside Island is country and seashore rolled into one. From its green lawns, shaded by tall leafy trees, can be had a sweep Ing, picturesque view of the Scund whom our hearts go out, to whom we plan to devote our whole attention and all the funds we can accumulate. It has been estimated that 4 tund of $10,000 is needed to carry on the work through the next three months. ‘The summer months are the ones in’ which the sick child suffers most, and the ones in which the anfection of whooping cough most rapidly spreads Klub. This is a one hundred per cent. charity. Every penny will be devoted to making sick ohil- dren well. Will you give ten dollare to save a neighbor's child? contributions amount to $1,600, This Ni i) oO be ’ is greatly short of the requisite sum. New York City has any nuraber o At present there are over 500 poor AT you give us your help? We children suffering from th:s complaint neod jt in order to realize the Kiddie in New York City, and Dr. Copeland Klub Country Fund's worthy under- " taking. ‘Ten dollars will save a kid- says that by midsummer there will die, Any part of $10 will help. Seven be 1,000, This work is doubly bene- out of every one hundred whooping ficial. .Not only 1s it saving the child ~cough patients die, and a high pro- blank and mail it to Dr. Blumenthal, Bureau of Child Hygiene, Department of Health, New York City. Ms 4 eee CONVALESCENTS in THE NURSERY DINNER, GeroRe GOING TO BED. already afflicted, but by so doing is preventing the spread of contagion and 60, perhaps, removing danger from a child you love. With the needed $10,000 it 1s Possible to care portion become tuberculous. ‘Help us to save these children. The contribu- tor may even say whether his little friend shall be boy or girl, To know that you have saved a child will be a happiness throughout your life. “ ; If you mean to help us, and we for 1,000 kiddies, With the help and | 00 801, Go, please make Tonn Gone co-operation which we will recelve tribution payable to the Kiddle Klub from Commissioner Copeland and his staff we can keep a kiddie six weekw for $10, Six weeks ts the length of time that the average child takes to convalesce. But no child will be dls. charged at the end of that time un- less pe or she is entirely well. ‘Already the little members of the Kiddie Klub have responded. Their Country Fund, New York Evening World, The Kiddie Klub Country Fund ts, so far as we know, the only 100 per cent. benefit. Not one penny of it goes for executives, directors, doctors or any other highly specialized work, The children are the whole and sole beneficiaries, and every cent will be spent on their care and keep, Wsrserysesad