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Central Dispensary, to accompany the sick patients 

 there and to keep in touch with the so-called sick- 

 work an important factor in keeping up the interest 

 of the nurses in their difficult work. 



The material at the Central Dispensary was also 

 used for teaching medical students. This was in- 

 stituted by Dr. E. F. Cushing, Professor of Paediatrics 

 at the Western Reserve University, who ordered that 

 the seniors receive their practical training in the 

 diseases of infants at the Central Dispensary, and 

 who placed the medical director of the Babies' Dispen- 

 sary on the University teaching staff, and entrusted 

 to him the teaching of nutritional disturbances and 

 infant feeding, and so established a connection with 

 the medical school. 



The character and development of the work during 

 the next two years made it seem advisable to build, if 

 the money was not ample for the erection of the entire 

 group, at first the dispensary and milk laboratory 

 rather than the hospital. This was the plan followed 

 and in the spring of 1910 the present Central Dispen- 

 sary and Milk Laboratory were built as a memorial 

 to Mrs. Anna R. Wade, mother of the donors, Mr 

 and Mrs. J. H. Wade. 



From the very beginning of the work numerous 

 lectures on the causes of infant mortality and the 

 means to prevent them were given in popular form 

 all over the city, wherever an audience could be 

 obtained. This is mentioned because this activity 

 undoubtedly made many individuals acquainted with 

 the Association's work, and thereby helped make 

 friends for the institution's cause. 



The public press also became interested and was 

 so well managed by our superintendent of nurses, 

 Miss Leet, that, when in 1911 it was found that the 

 City Council had $10,000.00 in its treasury to be 

 used in some profitable manner, it voluntarily began 

 a campaign that not only gave the $10,000.00 to 



