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Show W1NISN0H TO SJOE BSBIES Health Commissioner Will Submit Views to the City Commission. Dr. Samuel G. Paul, city health commissioner, com-missioner, has completed plans for a thorough baby-saving campaign in Salt Lake this summer and will submit them to Mayor Samuel C. Park and the city commission at an early date. Acting under suggestions sent out bv the children's bureau of the United States department of labor. Dr. Paul plans to establish a pure milk station to be operated under the direction of tho board of health, where mothers may secure milk for their Infants, and to wage a general campaign of education and prevention In relation to the care of babies and the flghtlns of diseases to which they are subjected during the summer months. With the aid of tho district nurses who have been employed since the first of the year in school inspection in-spection work. Dr. Paul believes it will be possible to establish much closer relations re-lations between the health department and mothers of young babes and thereby there-by effect a material reduction of Infant mortality In the city among children under un-der fivo years of age. T50,u.sll l,ne death rate among babies in bait Lake Is not great as compared to other cities. Dr. Paul sees no reason why it should not be cut down to the minimum. He Is confident that It can be done if sufficient authorltv and money are placed at the disposal o"f the health department. The first step in the' campaign will ..fin. e,stabHshment of the municipal milk station, where milk, absolutely free wmmi '"Kfedlents Injurious to children, will be dispensed. Dr. Paul will submit inYhJ1?" .to Mayor rk and will ask rni i i y to tr"sfer money from sev-f2 sev-f2 l,e1' a?counts In his department for this work. He plans to open the station at somo point on the west side and will probably place one of tho district dis-trict nurseB in charge. One of the doctors doc-tors attached to the health department also will be stationed there during certain cer-tain hours each day to consult with mothers about their babies and to examine ex-amine and prcscribo for the bablea If need be. With the milk station as a sort of baBls of action, Dr. Paul plans to conduct con-duct a big campaign throughout the city. Through the relations established with the mothers who come to the station for milk, the health department will be able to send out Its district nurses to follow up cases brought to the attention of the physician at the milk etation. In this way each case of an ailing Infant In-fant can be kept tr-.ck cf. In line with the work of the visiting nurses, Dr. Paul will undertake on a small scale to begin with the care of expectant mothers. The nurses will be directed to consult with mothers and offer Instruction and advice. Destruction of the fly and the exclusion exclu-sion of this dangerous insect from all contact with the baby will be featured as a vital necessity In the preservation of the young life. Cleanliness and sanitation sani-tation will be urged in every way possible. |
