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Show How to Save the Infants. Ite-dical Ite-dical men in the large cities tre directing the attention ol the peoile to a system of large floating hospiais for the cure of invalid children. Cue of these institutions has boen in sic-cesslul sic-cesslul optration during the ist year. It is conducted as follows: A barge having two decks receives he , invalid children, who aro accomia-nied accomia-nied by their mothers or nurBo. Tiny are brought on board at 8 o'clockin the morning; the barge is then touul by a small tug up and down he river until 6 o'clock in the evenhg, after which the children relunti.) their homes until the next day, wbn they are received on board agairj il they are not entirely cured. No on-tagious on-tagious diseaae ib permitted on hood. The principal object of this sysltu 1 ia to save the children who aro sul)r-ing sul)r-ing from summer conipiuinta (chulra infantum, diarrhcoa uud dysuulcr). Experience during tho paat sumicr has shown that Uiu pur nir of iu water htiB oriented the pn-gresiof these diseases. Tho children w have been brought ou buard I're'til and Buttering with puin, have hen immediately relieved. They ill asleep and remain so lor many hum. When they wake up they run abjl the boat, and will eat anything tfcy can obtain. The St. John's Guild fi utting hi-pitol, hi-pitol, of New York, has built a bop 215 feet in length by 4U feet n breadth. It haB three decks, oil will accommodate 3,000 persons. U has all the improvements BUggtskl by the experience of last year. Tv dining room, wash rooms and wutf closet are in the hold ol theboat, TV lower deck is provided with shuttei, which can he closed if rain or Ixl weather comes on. The upper dek is provided with awnings, so that u case of rain no water can get ndms-aion. ndms-aion. The children and motlniB, alter coming on board, oro provided with milk, bruod and meat, and ai3 o'clock in the afternoon again recede tho aline articles. During the prat year 18,000 persona have rccctwd the bonebts of this system. |