Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-04-18 | Page 11 | Declares Demand for 'Orphan' Babies Exceeds the Supply

'ad' Investmento Is to solicit the patronage patron-age of expectant mothers " The committee learned that Dr. Brlney contrarted with unmarried patients so that after giving birth to children they were hired out aa nurses Their own children, however, were reared on artificial arti-ficial food. "We snake contracts with the gtrt mothers before their babies are born to this effect." said the witness. Dr. Charles H. Wood, head of another maternity Institution, submitted In evidence evi-dence a contract which friendless mothers moth-ers sign by which they release all rights to their children and declare they have "abandoned nhem forever." Signatures to this document are prerequisites to treatment, treat-ment, he eald. DECLARES DEMAND FOR 'ORPHAN BABIES EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY CHICAGO, April 1. "Doctor' gntU" 4 myfm ot fee pliitiruj bMtd on the barter In table, waa diaoleaed today to the leslalatlva committee which la Invee-ilea Invee-ilea tine; charity Inetltutlona and maternity mater-nity home which oare for -children. It waa teetlfled that In many caaea the ph ye I clan racommendinv the maternity home to proapecUve patient receive a much a one-third of the money paid to the Institution. The committee alo wae given evidence tending to ehow Chicago Chi-cago a a clearing houee for foundlings thmughout the middle west. Dr. William Brlney, head of a aanl-tarium aanl-tarium and superintendent of a Sunday ehool. etartled the legislator with an aeaerllon that the demand for "orphan tahle" waa three times aa great aa the MM We can't furnleh all the babies w are asked for," tie eald. "We have a yearly contract for advertlnlng In two Chlca.ro papers In which we offer babies for adoption, but the real purpose of the 1