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interested in the work of this little clinic that growing 

 space had to be provided. This was accomplished 

 mainly through the efforts of the much-lamented Dr. 

 E. F. Gushing, who had long ago hoped and wished 

 for a babies' hospital, and who now saw here the 

 opportunity to awaken the interest necessary to 

 establish this much-needed institution. In December, 

 1906, as a result of Dr. Cushing's efforts, the Babies' 

 Dispensary and Hospital was incorporated to carry 

 on and develop the work of the Infants' Clinic ; 

 ground was purchased and plans were drawn of a 

 group of buildings consisting of a large dispensary and 

 nurses' home, a hospital, an isolation house, and 

 a milk laboratory. On April i, 1907, the writer 

 became medical director of the institution, gave 

 up his practice and devoted his entire time to the 

 development of the work. In May, 1907, one of the 

 large frame houses on the purchased property was 

 remodelled and used as a babies' dispensary, where 

 both well and ill infants were cared for. One of the 

 rooms of this building was equipped and used as 

 an emergency hospital for desperately ill babies for 

 whom no beds were available at the time in any of 

 the general hospitals of the city. Another reason for 

 having this room was to emphasize the crying need 

 of hospital beds for sick babies to the lay people 

 interested in the work. 



Two other rooms of this same building were used 

 as the milk laboratory, where most of the milk used 

 was put into quart and pint jars, where also milk was 

 modified, poured into tubes and pasteurized for those 

 infants who were very ill, and whose parents were 

 for some reason sickness, ignorance, too much work, 

 &c. unable to prepare the baby's food at home. At 

 this stage the Milk Fund Association was still in 

 existence, and inasmuch as it had set for itself the 

 work of distributing good milk in pint and quart 

 jars it carried the expense of this part of the milk 



