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the mothers and babies in that neighborhood. My attention was 

 called to this state of affairs by a man who worked on the place 

 attending funerals so frequently. It was always a mother's funeral, 

 often mother and baby. Since that time, nine years ago, I have de- 

 livered 308 women, and I have all the mothers and babies. It would 

 not be fair to the good people of Baltimore who have organized an 

 association for the care of these people not to tell you about it. 

 The work we are doing is in the way of district nursing, hygiene and 

 social science, and we are going to carry it into every rural commu- 

 nity in the United States. Next year we hope to have a paper for 

 the infant mortality meeting, and to give you some figures. I hope 

 that we shall have your co-operation. 



