Identifier: surveyaprsep1920surv (find matches)
Title: The Survey April-September 1920
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

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id wear a pretty dressand a bright colored tie, because colors are loved. When the As for statistics, they are, of course, inadequate and probablyinaccurate to some degree. St. Mary Parish has a populationof perhaps 43»ooo, of which presumably one-half is colored.The births in 1918 as recorded were 357 white and 353colored; the parish spent $21.14 for health purposes; 21 whitebabies and 30 Negro babies are said to have died before theywere one month old. Deaths from specific diseases included:typhoid 22, malaria 15, measles 3, whooping-cough 6, dysen-tery 13, pellagra 6, tuberculosis (lungs) 63, other tuberculosis10, syphilis 6, cancers 20, pneumonia 107, death by violence27, influenza 165, all other causes 320; total 783; deathrate 18.1. IllV\7lLL social work be-™ ™ come a permanentinstitution in these par-ishes? It is tooearly to tell. TheRed Cross is farfrom being the onlyagency interested;the State Board ofHealth is inter-ested, the Depart-ment of Educationand the Depart- ■
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talk began in the tiny school house,only one woman could be per-suaded to come in, but no harmbeing offered her, others crept inone by one until the room was full.Of course the language spoken wasFrench. However, the momentMrs. Alpha had finished, silentlyand quickly they all stole out andinto the forest. It was afterjust such humble beginnings, aftermonths of most tentative sug-gestion, and inviolably regarded promises, that progress began to be made. The houseboatcolony came to know and trust her; the seventy children inthe one room school house, who drank from the stagnantbayou, came to look eagerly for her, and strangely and fatallyinsanitary ways began in some small measure to be mended.The work has begun. More than half of the expectant mothers in the parish ofSt. Mary are still attended by colored midwives, of whomthere are one hundred and fourteen registered. A steamingkettle of corn husks indicates by the manner in which the steamrises whether the mothers pains will be diffic

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