160 A CITY'S DUTY IN THE PREVENTION OF INFANT MORTALITY 



Number of Visits by Nurses 



Original visits for investigation and instruction 9,172 



Special nursing visits 5,049 



Revisits 5,735 



Total visits 19,956 



Number of sick infants cared for 2,347 



Number of expectant women instructed 587 



Disposal of Cases 



Deaths 21 



Sent to hospitals 82 



Sent to general dispensaries or district physicians 443 



Sent to country or seashore 53 



Report of Piers : Chestnut Street opened July 25th ; Race Street, 



August 3rd 



Sick infants in attendance 2,434 



Well infants in attendance 2,014 



Older children 3,593 



Total attendance 8,041 



Caretakers instructed 2,681 



Twelve thousand, eight hundred and seventeen (12,817) 

 quarts of milk and eighty-six thousand (86,000) pounds of ice 

 were distributed in the homes of the destitute. The Philadelphia 

 Modified Milk Society distributed from 18 milk stations, four 

 hundred and sixty-nine thousand, seven hundred and thirty- 

 eight (469,738) bottles of modified milk, thirteen thousand four 

 hundred and forty-nine (13,449) of which were used on the 

 piers. 



As results of this summer's campaign through newspaper 

 articles and public exhibits of soothing syrups and babies com- 

 forters containing opium or more dangerous drugs, the Phila- 

 delphia Association of Retail Druggists most magnanimously 

 passed resolutions endorsing the position of the Department, 

 and condemning and discouraging the sale of these remedies 

 by their members ; the mayor of the city most deeply interested 

 in the welfare of children, and impressed by the success of the 

 work on the City Piers, has already started a movement to pro- 

 cure a large floating hospital for next summer. This, and more, 

 can be accomplished by proper publicity; by securing the co-op- 

 eration of private associations with the various departments of 

 city government; by demonstrating in such a forceful way, by 



