Show TUE SAVING oi Of BABIES BABIES' LIVES Saving of babies babies' lives as the tho chief chief pa parochial pa- pa work of a New York Tori Yorio church is a novelty novely of practical Christianity found In inthe tho the west side of the time teeming Harlem section sec saC ecton ec- ec ton tion of the tho city where race raco suicide seems to be little known but where infant mortality mor mor- talky talty is still far too high The Tho t 10 great reat apartment house district Just Morningside Heights has not t bOn been served sered by the tho Nathan Straus pasteurized pasteurized pas pas- milk mik philanthropy that work be beIn being belag be- be In lag ing confirmed confined to seventeen stations in the tenement districts so 10 Rev Allen Alien W. W McCurdy McCurdy Mc Mc- Curdy pastor of the Fresby Presby terlan tartan church undertook to supply the need Found Babies Babics Dying from Bad Milk Mile Mik He lie le found that babies fell ill 1 and died from irom infectious diseases when allen apparently they had not miot been exposed to conta contagion lon and that summer complaint claimed a heavy hear toll toil Enlisting the iho Interest of or tho the women of the parish he studied the methods of or the tile athan Straus work and amid set up in itt the time church parlor a plant for modifying bottling bot bet an and l pasteurizing Izing mi milk On July 12 12 10 the supplying of or the tile milk mik began be un In a a short time the time capacity capacity capac capac- Iy ity of the tile plant was reached and now 17 babies are fed on this thi milk while two adore ore have ilave had hail to be turned turned away The eagerness of mothers to get safe mm properly adapted to the needs of their babies balles is illustrated by the tho fact that many of them come coma over a mile mie to ge get their daily daly supply Inspiring Factor in iii Church Life Incidentally the work has become an n nb b inspiring factor C o in the tho life f of tile the parish a i bringing t the congregation e tl into n touch c with Tl the vital needs of the tile people bringing women of leisure into relation with the mothers of the poor por setting Idle hands busy making clothes for babies that otherwise otherwise oth oth- would have been lacking lacing The church Is not well wel to todo todo todo do and the starting of such a a work was deprecated by some as likely to be adrain n n. drain upon tho the resources of the congregation congie- congie gatlon gation gaton but the work has ha been maintained main main- mal mal- tamed and enlarged Now New the only re regret regret regret re- re gret on the tho part of the congre congregation aton Is Its inability t to expand epand the work to meet tho the demands Other OilIer churches have become interested interested inter inter- ested cited in the work and the multiplication of church milk mik stations is now an au Interesting interesting Inter inter- York esting and hopeful possibility In iii New |