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and to the Babies' Dispensary and Hospital all of the 

 "sick " work, and so markedly increased the value of 

 the Central Dispensary as a teaching place for medical 

 students in the diseases of infants and young children. 

 The transference of its six branch dispensaries to 

 the Board of Health enabled the Babies' Dispensary 

 and Hospital to apply its funds to the development of 

 other weapons in the fight for the betterment of infant 

 life. An enumeration of these will suffice : 



(1) A nurse devoting her entire time to the 

 prevention of blindness by answering calls to infants 

 with sore eyes, and seeing to it that they receive 

 proper attention at the hands of competent physicians. 



(2) A boarding home system of one child per 

 home, one nurse devoting her entire time to develop- 

 ing proper homes and controlling them, and the 

 children they accept and care for. 



(3) A nurse devoting part of her time to demon- 

 strate to the Board of Education the possibility of 

 teaching infant hygiene to the seventh and eighth 

 grade girls of the grammar schools. 



(4) A nurse devoting her entire time to teaching 

 and training nurses in this special work. 



(5) The operation of the babies' ward of the 

 Children's Fresh Air Camp, another philanthropic 

 institution caring for children during the summer 

 months, in conjunction with this institution. 



Of the above the nurse doing ophthalmia neona- 

 torum work has been transferred to the Department of 

 Child Hygiene. Still another has been added by this 

 department, and a third delegated to it by the State 

 Commission for the Care of the Blind, to control 

 midwives and help care for children and adults having 

 dangerous eye diseases. 



That there is no one-sided co-operation between 

 the Department of Child Hygiene and the Babies' 

 Dispensary and Hospital, to the advantage of the 

 latter, is proven by the fact that all of the milk used 



