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at the Board of Health Prophylactic Babies' Dispen- 

 saries is supplied by the Babies' Dispensary and 

 Hospital. In this connection it may be stated that 

 the Municipality will, in all probability, produce its 

 own milk in the near future, inasmuch as it owns and 

 is developing a farm of some 2,000 acres just outside 

 of the city limits. 



From the description so far given, it is already 

 clear that the role played by the Babies' Dispensary 

 and Hospital as a philanthropic institution has been 

 one of pioneering, demonstrating and proving the 

 need and value of certain measures ; that of the Muni- 

 cipality of accepting weapons found sound and able, 

 and using them to the fullest degree possible in the 

 fulfilling of one of its most important duties the 

 protection of the health of its infant population. 



The Babies-' Dispensary early in its life insisted 

 upon the entire time of its medical director, and so 

 gave the latter the opportunity to keep in touch with 

 the progress in scientific paediatrics, and this fact more 

 than any other is responsible for the respect that the 

 institution enjoys amongst the important medical men, 

 the respect that has enabled it not only to intimately 

 co-operate with the Municipality, but with the Medical 

 Department of the Western Reserve University as well. 



The climax in the co-operation with the latter 

 came with the beginning of the school year 1912-13, 

 when the writer, after becoming the successor of Dr. 

 Gushing at the Medical School, succeeded in having 

 eight hours placed upon the compulsory curriculum 

 of the senior year for practical training in the social 

 medicine pertaining to infant mortality work. This 

 training consists in demonstrating and explaining in 

 detail the work of the physician and nurse in the 

 Central Dispensary of the Babies' Dispensary and 

 Hospital, in a prophylactic babies' dispensary, and in 

 the "blind" and "midwife" work of the Board of 

 Health, in the home of a patient, in one of the Babies' 



