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the Board of Health for infant mortality work, but 

 also made the Babies' Dispensary advisers to the 

 former in the manner of the application of the funds, 

 and ended in establishing a department of child 

 hygiene at the Board of Health with the Medical 

 Director of the Babies' Dispensary and Hospital as 

 director thereof. This established a direct relation 

 between the municipality and the private philanthropy. 

 As soon as the money was available five new 

 prophylactic babies' dispensaries were opened* by 

 the Board of Health, which assumed the same relation 

 to the Central Dispensary of the Babies' Dispensary 

 and Hospital as did the regular branch dispensaries of 

 the latter. So at this time, July, 1911, Cleveland had 

 eleven prophylactic babies' dispensaries and one 

 central dispensary, the latter acting as the hub of 

 the entire work and caring for all of the sick and for 

 the well babies of its immediate district. After an 

 elapse of three months it was found that at the close of 

 the year money would still remain in the treasury 

 of the Department of Child Hygiene. So five of the 

 branch dispensaries of the Babies' Dispensary and 

 Hospital were transferred to the Board of Health, now 

 making ten prophylactic dispensaries in charge of the 

 Department of Child Hygiene. During the first half 

 of 1912 the last branch of the Babies' Dispensary and 

 Hospital was transferred to the Department of Child 

 Hygiene, and in July, 1912, the budget of the latter 

 was increased sufficiently to permit the addition of 

 two more, making a total of thirteen, and at the 

 present writing the total will have increased to fifteen. 

 The two prophylactic babies' dispensaries opened by 

 the Department of Child Hygiene in July, 1912, were 

 placed in the immediate neighbourhood of the Central 

 Dispensary of the Babies' Dispensary and Hospital, 

 in order to entirely relieve the latter of its " well work " 

 at the Central. This arrangement gave to the Depart- 

 ment of Child Hygiene all of the prophylactic work, 



