Show GIVES MEDALS FOR BABIES Boston Committee Adopts Unique Plan for Reduction of Mortality Among Infants Boston Tho Boston committee on hygiene will offer gold and silver medals med-als to mothers who bring them babies which conform to the standards of the board of health Mothers who have the healthiest babies will receive a gold medal Those whoso babies are healthy but not In the gold modal Class will receive silver medals Then too there Is to be some form of recognition rec-ognition for the mothers who start out with a sickly baby and bring It to a high degree of health This scheme Is n direct result of the Huddcrsflold plan for tho prevention preven-tion of Infant mortality although a great Improvement upon the Hudders field plan says Dr J M Connolly the medical director of tho committee on milk and baby hygiene The Hud I dersfield plan arose In tho following way Mayor Broadbont of Hudders field England offered five dollars to every mother In the Longwood district of Huddersfleld who should during his term of office produce at the city hall a healthy child of one year of age At tho samo time mothers and prospective pros-pective mothers were visited by vol tary lady helpers who showed them the most approved methods of feeding Ing and caring for tho babies There are four cities in tho United States which have Improved upon the Budln and the Huddersfleld plans These four arc New York Cleveland Rochester N Y and Boston Boston Bos-ton whoso committee has been ablo to profit from tho experiences of foreign as well as American cities has a system sys-tem for In advance of them all Conditions aro different in every locality and treatments must bo modified modi-fied to suit tho conditions |