Show I I entity of Babies Proved to lo Mothers by System 3 a Of Footprint Records Used by Chicago Hospital q A SCOT I 4 I li 4 7 i 4 rc I I tD w I v jj d c II t r l jl F I 7 jv U p Chicago nurse making record of baby's identity March 9 King King Solomi Solom Solo- Solo m m-i m was cert certainly a a. lucky monarch H HI lived lIed J ed In those golden days when th the high cost of ot living was not and he hl h acquired a 8 reputation for wisdom by deciding in a a. rather hazardous w way y to which of at two women an In- In fant tant belonged Reputations for wisdom wisdom wisdom wis wis- dom were easy in those days Today T r day any doctor or nurse connected con- con d with the he Chicago lying in hos- hos pita can cn tell by consulting an index which h babies belong to which mothers and andi never make a a. mistake even though there may be or more A that would baffle the Wise told Old ld Ing cing IngNOr NOr NOT TO WRONG MOTHERS jr A the hospital al 8 a system of at taking footprints of ot babies h has s been adopted to prevent the children born there from going to wrong mo mothers hers Its adoption was due to the fact that In another anoter hospital a soldiers soldier's wife who birth to a baby there at the child was hers The young young mother who had been reading storks r s of at accidental substitution of I children at hospitals and similar In Institutions In- In declined to nurse the baby In-I In FR FRANTIC WITH GRIEF T The Tie e superintendent brought l all the proofs he could muster bu but the mother persisted in the hallucination She became hysterical l with grief griet and fright t. t Finally the superintendent b brought ought the records of ot the hospital which h showed that only a little colored colored col col- col- col ored ord baby and her own had been i In the hospital that day That convinced her but she might never h hav been convinced had other white babies been born there on the same day dayt i In order to avoid a similar r experience experience ence the superintendent of ot the hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital engaged a fingerprint expert to instruct the head nurse in trying the system on babies It was wa found Impossible ible to get go good d prints of their fingers because the lines on a new newborn newborn born baby's fingers are not distinct enough to reproduce Their feet however come out beautifully and every foot has as s different lines as the fingers of an adult person even though tho the babies themselves may look Just alike Under the present system as soon as a baby is born some ink is put on feet and slips sUps of ot the soles soles- of ot its paper are pressed against them thern On these slips are n noted t d the baby's name name his weight and the hour and date of his birth Thus although a a baby may not resemble any anyone ne in the family and though no one can tell where he g got t his nose or his his' eyes orI or his mouth or the color of ot his hair a I comparison of the footprint at t birth will wUl tell whose child chUd it ft is among the hundreds of ot infants infanta in in this Chicago I institution There is no chance for accidental substitution there |