| Show Save Babies Campaign Gets Getsi i LUnder i Under W vy ay in Salt ait Lake City ity r Well babi babies s do not not die K Keeping epin ba babies ie w well lIl is k keeping babies bables a alive live t The cit city city that neglects neglect child hild hygiene ne neglects I its most pr precious possessions A r Civilization tion of the world is is the Ii result of keeping keepin alive by proper care babies who whoa otherwise he her hez would 6 3 4 h have died I 41 f C A j tU I r I z h r II I- I I VC ID I'D T This is baby on once given n up f for dead is one of thousands thousand saved by Dr Baker aker I up Health Department ent Will En En- dea deavor vor to D Decrease cr ase Summers Summer's Summers Summer's Summers Summer's Sum Sum- mers mer's Infant 1 Mortality u Few Few babies bables will v.-iu v. dr die i r cit of carelessness in Sal Salt L Lake ke t this is s summer in er if It plans pians o of th the city h Health department pa ment are successful The mo meas I u ures' ures es have b been en f r this summers summers summer's sum sum sum- mers mer's n rs r's campaign p here hete hereto t to In maintain goo good health among the little ones The infant t d pa will willbe willbe be be burde burdened d with most ost of f the work Visits will be made into tto the homes homes and and h helpful lpt l literature for the he proper prope I c care re of babies babies' will Swill b b be diss disseminated The health t pl ns to make this campaign ar paig n the m most t suc successful and arid far reaching hing in in Salt Lak Lakes Lake's history FEW SUGGESTIONS S. S I A few tew of the suggestions that mothers mother moth er ers will be be adjured to carry out are I Don't Dont keep baby in a warm stuffy room room and then blame pure air be be- beI I cause calise he catches cold when taken out I The baby sho should ld be Hept- Hept out V hof f I doors as much as poss possible ble in the sum jum sum m mer r. r Take j If to th the tha canyon If Jr possible possible ble not t to she Ithe he parks where there ere iere Is ls plenty of shade but l large rge crowds crowds' should be avoided Let the baby sleep out of or doors doors' at night j I Save the bab baby i Is a slogan of vital vitali interest terest i to all an m municipalities lIt es 1 Plans for the enlargement hygiene and anci health work during the coming summer are are completed in inmost most communities In New York City it IsI is expected that the child mortality rate I Continued on page 12 SA VE BABIES SAVE BABIES Continued from Continued from page 1 I a again aIr will be ut b by a a. very subs substantial tanJ tan tan- Hal percentage J OTHERS CAN CANDO DO IT If It New York can e cut L its Infant mortality almost in half halt every other other community in America can can do the same thing This is the declaration of Dr Josephine Jose Jose- phine S. S Baker head or of New New Yorks York's baby welfare department I New York she continues where more than thirty languages are spoken by mothers where there are are more crowded tenements than any place lace I else and where there is a a veritable Babel of at health ideas amo among g parents Dr Baker was the founder of of the first child hygiene department department- In in th the thA r world and Is credited more than any nY other one person with responsibility for tor the fact that New York City now has the lowest Infant mortality rate of any day of the ten en largest cities in ill America In I 1907 07 before Dr 1 Baker I began her work babies babies' died ln In New York City at the rate in every thousand In 1919 according to figures figures figures fig fig- ures Just given out was the death rate In 1907 b babies bIes died while in 1919 but died despite the fact tact that the population of New York has has- grown grow at least two millions during the period Asked how ether hiher American cities I may ay accomplish similar results Dr I Faker Baker aker said I I I see the he problem as needing heeding a triple solution 1 I Make sanitary conditions as nearly perfect as pos i- i I l le Ie 2 keep the milk supply right 3 3 teach health measures prevention of qt disease through perso personal work personal al- al York work of I trained nurses nurses I. I |
