Show STATE WILL WEIGH I BABES IN HEALTH CAMPAIGN I Action Will Be Preliminary I to Reducing Death Rate Among Infants l By Frank A. A Hunt Ever Every baby In Utah less than f 5 years old is to be weighed ed and measured mea mca b by the state health officers in order to ascertain at what age a a. baby needs attention the tho most and at what I ago aJO it ft is healthiest This work will begin soon under the direction of Dr I T. T B. B Beatty of tho the state board of health as aR Baby year ear is to the full attention of or the state health officials W. W T. C. C Ebaugh is chairman of or the committee in tho the state work The aim of or the tho tho childrens children's bur bureau au of oC the United States department of or labor abol Is to eliminate preventable preventable prevent prevent- able ahle deaths from the tho yearly yearl list said Dr Beatty Beatly Utah has witnesses witnessed a bU I U per cent reduction in the number of ot deaths among infants in the last six years ears but there is still sUll a a. chance for fOl fOlI I great improvement Our part of at the is and fully to do our part tho the following bodies will cooperate in the work State board of oC health Federated on n Clubs A g college extension t ome i s d division i f n p Teacher Parent e tT ch association association as as- s the chairman in cacti county on sanitation and medicine University of or Utah extension division and other representative bodies STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN Tho state will employ one man full time to conduct the campaign throughout Utah The state slate board of health has lias worked consistently to reduce reduce re reo re- re duce the mortality among infants and many pamphlets of or educational education l value have m lave e been issued during the past but hut this campaign is largely largel under the tho supervision of the government That Salt Lake will amply perform its part in III the national baby saving campaign is evidenced by br the man many plans that are now going forward to gain this en end Lack of ot knowledge regarding re reo gin ding prenatal care and the later care of the child is he held b by local medical medical medi medi- cal authorities to bo be the great cause of preventable infant mortality and Itis it itis itis is to remedy this condition that the cit city board of at health and other civic bodies will conduct a strenuous campaign campaign campaign cam cam- of education According to local physicians the United States census bureau estimates estimates estimates esti esti- mates that babies less than 1 year ear old died In a recent year in the United States and it is authoritatively that at least half these deaths were needless In 1915 there were 2752 births In Salt alt Lake said Dr Samuel Paul erthe of er the he city board of at health Out of oC this number died before they reached the tho age of or orone one month One hundred died before the age of two weeks and did before thc they r reached the a age e eor of or 1 year These figures are arC are cant EARLY START IN WORK These figures show that mIn mill stations stations sta star with all their educational and I physical advantages to the baby and m mother ther would not prevent the thc loss Joss of oC the newly born The work must start before the birth of or the child and with the Ire mother herself To this end I have havo recommended recommenced that a clinic be he established h by the cit city for the benefit of the expectant mothers where they may go and andain gain ain the necessary knowledge that is isso isso isso so vital ital to the welfare of or the tho child Here the mother will be now to too care for fOl herself in order that the bab baby may have the greatest amount of vitality when born horn In line with the bab baby saving campaign campaign cam the milk stations or of me the city cuy will be opened as soon as the schools close in June Miss Alma Carlson who js is at the head read of ot the city nurses wi will have charge of the work wort Seven nurses willbe will willbo bo be in attendance at the stations distribute dis dis- ls tribute milk go into the homes an and advise mothers in the proper reeding and care of infants CASES OF NEGLECT In my experience as nurse and Inthe Inthe in inthe the Charity Organization society I have found many extreme cases of neglect neglect neglect ne ne- ne- ne of or children said saM Miss Carlson In some families the economic pressure pros pres sure is so great that the patents parents fail to give time and attention to me the children and as soon as they are old enough they ther send them out to contribute contribute con con- tribute their share toward the support of ot the family If U It the parents In such families would only realize that b by giving more attention to the babies the they would save doctor bills bUls and great needless expense they would alter man many con Then too the child will have havea a greater earning capacity capacH later on when it is older if it receives proper care in its infancy It soun sounds s harsh to refer reter to the care of oC babies in terms of at dollars and cents but it is a fact that the economic side of at the question ques ques- I Ion tion is the only one that really appeals In n cerain certain cases I |