Identifier: reportofphiladel00philrich (find matches)
Title: The report of the Philadelphia baby saving show, and the proceedings of the Conference on infant hygiene
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Philadelphia. Baby saving show, 1912 Child Hygiene Association of Philadelphia Conference on infant hygiene (1912 : Philadelphia)
Subjects: Infants -- Care and hygiene Exhibitions Infants -- Care and hygiene Congresses
Publisher: (Philadelphia) The Executive committee
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e of the various maternity and childrens hospitals. Number and Personnel of the Visitors.—In the nine days in which the Show wasgiven in Horticultural Hall it was visited by 67,507 persons. Children of twelveyears and younger were not admitted unless accompanied by their parents orguardians, and no children or youths were permitted to wander through the exhibitunattended. The personnel of the visitors, however, included a very large groupof little mothers, whose attention was especially centered upon the portions of theexhibit which bore most directly upon the care of the baby. Of the total numberof visitors, the majority was unquestionably made up of prospective mothers andmothers with infants. One of the demonstrators in a booth devoted to the clothingof the baby was consulted by more than a thousand pregnant women, and duringa single hour on one day 200 women with babies in their arms entered the hall.On this particular day there were admitted 1200 mothers with babes in arms. The
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IXTRODUCTION 17 number of fathers who came to get information for mothers who could not come wasstriking. Many of them came with pencil and pajter to make notes of the thingsthey wished to remember. An interesting feature was the large attendance of the well-to-do and rich, andit was very gratifying to see many of these return a second and third time, selectinghours during which the attendance was smallest in order that they might study theexhibits thoroughly. The attraction of this class of individuals was one of the mostimportant devcloiiments of the Show, in that in the sections bearing upon heredity,eugenics, and housing conditions, many of them gained their first knowledge of thedangers which surround the offspring of the poor and ignorant inhabitants of ourcities—a very important lesson for them to have learned, since the supjiort of thiselement of the public is very essential to the carrying out of public health measures. The Show was very largely attended and carefully studi

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