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Show GIVES MEDALS FOR BABIES Boston Committee Adopts Unique Plan for Reduction of Mortality Among Infants. Boston. The Boston committee on hygiene will offer gold and silver medals med-als 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 gold 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-I rec-I ognition for the mothers who start out with a sickly baby and bring it to a high degree of health. "This scheme is a direct result of the Huddersfield plan for the prevention preven-tion of infant mortality, although a great improvement upon the Huddersfield Hudders-field plan," says Dr. J. M. Connolly, the medical director of the committee Dn milk and baby hygiene. "The HucV dersfield plan arose in the following way: Mayor Broadbent, of Huddersfield, Hudders-field, England, offered five dollars to every mother in the Longwood district of Huddersfield who should, during his term of office, produce at the city hall a healthy child of one year of age. At the same time mothers and prospective pros-pective mothers were visited by 'vol-tary 'vol-tary lady helpers', who showed them the most approved methods of feeding ing and caring for the babies. "There are four cities in the United States which have improved upon the Budin and the Huddersfield plans. These four are New York. Cleveland, Rochester, N. Y., and Boston. Boston, Bos-ton, whose committee has been able to profit from the experiences of foreign as well as American cities, has a system sys-tem for in advance of them all." "Conditions are different in every locality, and treatments must be modified modi-fied to suit the conditions." |