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is not quite so good in 191 1.) I think you will recog- 

 nize his name as English Dr. Ruttan. 



Take Fort William, already referred to. Dr. 

 Wodehouse, now Permanent District Health Officer, 

 then Medical Health Officer at Fort William, 

 attended to his primary duties. He got two sani- 

 tary by-laws passed in 1910. Then he got everybody 

 to help him, including the Mayor of Fort William, 

 who gave a banquet on June 7, 1911, to " Save the 

 Baby." As you remember, in July and August, 1911, 

 only twenty-one babies died, as compared with sixty- 

 three in 1910. 



Hamilton is another city where there does not 

 seem to be a " complete lack of any thinking about 

 the problem." For the last two or three years they 

 have had a Babies' Dispensary Guild, with doctors 

 and nurses to do the work and *a Board largely com- 

 posed of business men. Last year the Guild had 

 a great newspaper and city campaign, which brought 

 them about 15,000 dollars to save the babies of 

 Hamilton. In 1912 they had 452 babies under their 

 care, and only eighteen of these died. 



Toronto is also thinking, though our visitors did 

 not notice it. Housing is being seriously considered, 

 and we are just finishing our first block of houses for 

 working men, built by the Toronto Housing Company. 

 Our Medical Health Officer, Dr. Charles Hastings, 

 has employed several child welfare nurses, and pure 

 milk depots have been established, especially in 

 connection with the Settlements. Nor is the Church 

 idle. In Earlscourt, alias Shacktown, for example, 

 into one congregation about 280 babies were born in 

 1911 and only 6 died in the year. At a baby show, 

 April 27, 1912, held by this church to encourage the 

 study of health, 140 babies were shown, and of that 

 number 139 were alive in November, 1912. This 

 church employs a trained nurse to instruct and 

 encourage the mothers 



