Show GIVES MEDALS FOR BABIES boston comm atee adopts un que plan for reduction of mortality among infants boston the boston committee on hygiene will offer gold and silver med atis 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 geld medal those whose babies are healthy but not in the gold medal class will receive silver medals then too there is to be some form of rec ignition tion for the mothers who start out kith a sickly baby and bring it to a high degree of health this is a direct result of the plan for the t on of infant mortality although a great improvement upon the hudders field plan says dr J M connolly the medical director of the committee on milk and baby hygiene the hud derifield ders field plan arose in the following way mayor broadbent of hudders field england offered five dollars to every mother in the longwood district of who should during h s term of office produce at the city hall a heal I 1 y child of one year of age at the ame time mothers and pros mothers were visited by vol tary lady helpers who showed them the most approved methods of feeding ing and caring tor the bab es tl ere are four cities in the unite 1 ta h rh hae improved upon the buaiz and the plans 1 ese lo 10 are new york cleveland rochester N Y and boston bos ton whose committee has been able to profit from the of foreign as well as american cities has a tern for in advance of them all condit ons are different in every locality and treatments must be mod fled to suit the condit ons |