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Show F.ETTER ROADS HELP EABIES Farm Is Made More Accessible to Doctor and Nurse Danger in Travel Is Reduced. It may seem a long way from good roads to heriej" babies, and yet the two are closely connected. America has a great rural population, popula-tion, throughout which babies are be mg born every day. These bames and their mothers need care, the visit of the nurse, the services of the physician, often of the surgeon, and how are they to have it if between lie miles of road impassable alike to automobile or buggy? ' Of what use is the little hospital at the county seat if the woman whose life depends upon its ca"e cannot be aken there swtlijy and comfortably? What difference does it make that t he town physic an may be a very wizard wiz-ard at treating diphtheria. If long before be-fore he can anive at the farm the little lit-tle throat has been closed by the deadly film, or the little heart stopped Ivy the dept-ssunt poison? Medical and surgical honors are generally claimed for the citv when as a matter of fact the country doctor is often possessed of a skill, as complete com-plete as his heart is big. Make the. farm accessible to the doctor doc-tor and nurse, hinke the hospital and the health center accessible to the farm. Nature and skill will do the rest. Concord Monitor. |