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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XXXVIII. Section D, No. 28. Nutritive Value of Foods 116 XXXIX. Section D, No. 28. Composition of Food Materials 118 XL. Section D, No. 28. Forms in Which Milk May Be Given 120 XLI. Section D. No. 32. A Plain Clean Kitchen 126 XLII. Section D, Nos. 34 and 36. Breast Feeding 128 XLIII. Section D, Nos. 34 and 36. Reproduction from a Colored Lithograph made from an Original Water-Color Painting: Mother and Nursing Child ; by Eleanore .\bbott 132 XLIV. Section D, No. 27. Care of the Baby—Clothing 136 XLV. Section D, No. 29. Care of the Baby—Bathing, Weighing, etc. . 138 XLVI. Section D, No. 33. Care of the Baby 140 XLVII. Section D, No. 3.5. Care of the Baby. Committee on Childhood Health Exhibit of Boston 142 XLVIII. Section D, No. 37. Committee on Childhood Health Exhibit of Boston 144 XLIX. Foyer— Bad Booth—Patent Medicines and Soothing SjTups 146 L. Foyer—Bad Booth —AH Things Bad for Babies 148 LI. Foyer—Mechanical Device Indicating the Frequency of Deaths of Infants 150
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Introduction * There is no age period in which the number of deaths is greater than during thefirst year of Hfe, and none in which the number of preventable deaths is so great.It is also true that this high mortality is chiefly amongst those who are most ignor-ant. It is very manifest, therefore, that if nmch impression is to be made upon themortality, as well as the morbidity, of this first year of life, some means must beadopted by which this class of pcojjle can be taught to understand the danger of theirenvironment and of their present methods of living, as well as to appreciate the valueof the preventive mea.sures which intelligent health officers are endeavoring to en-force. How is such education to be administered? Ignorance of and indifferencetoward health measures are as old as man. To overcome this long-standingignorance and prejudice in the shortest possible time is no sinecure. Large andwidely different groups of people must be taught, and the lessons must be presentedin s

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