CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY, PHILADELPHIA 809 



mothers and the remainder of the day she spent in visiting the 

 sick children at their homes. 324 babies were registered during the 

 season and 15,993 feedings were distributed and 2,305 professional 

 visits were made. The total cost of maintaining the five stations was 

 $1,027.07. 



Miscellaneous. Added to the cost of milk, $2,022.68; laboratory, 

 $460.05; stations, $1,027.07, was a miscellaneous cost for print- 

 ing, stationery, postage, telegrams and telephone messages of $210.45, 

 making a total cost for the season of $3,700.15. This total cost does not 

 include the value of services and materials given without charge, 

 such as transportation of milk from railroad depot to the stations 

 by the Overland Automobile Company (the value of services about 

 $500.00) of ice contributed to the various stations by various ice 

 companies at a value of $210.00 and a few similar items to the value 

 of $35.00. Services of the physicians at the stations were also given 

 without charge. 



THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 

 Philadelphia 



(a). Educational. Through our department for destitute mothers 

 with infants an effort is made to provide for the instruction of such 

 mothers in infant hygiene and infant feeding. Some literature is dis- 

 tributed, but we do not have any classes for mothers. The Society 

 joins with other agencies from time to time in general movements in 

 the community having for one of their objects the education of 

 mothers in the care of infants. 



(b). Preventive and remedial. We do not conduct milk dispen- 

 saries nor undertake the distribution of milk for mothers and babies, 

 but to some extent, our educational work is conducted along lines 

 which are both preventive and remedial in their ultimate effect. 



(c). Medical and nursing supervision. In the case of mothers with 

 infants applying to our Society consultation by physicians and nurses 

 is practically always secured. We do not undertake follow-up work in 

 the homes by nurses, but our own visitors do some work along this 

 line. 



(d). Statistical. During the year 1909 our department for mothers 

 with children placed 437, each with one child. In addition to this 

 we received fifty children in our boarding-out department who were 

 cared for apart from their mothers, being placed at board in private 

 families. 



Of the fifty babies (received during 1909 under two years of age) 

 we lost by death during the same year a total of seven. 



(e). Social. The Society seeks in various ways to improve the 

 home conditions under which the children live, but this is usually 

 in co-operation with other agencies. 



(f). Child caring. The Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania 

 does everything possible to prevent separation of young infants from 

 their mothers and has developed a special department to care for 

 widows, deserted wives, and unfortunate mothers with infants. For 

 children of mothers physically or morally unfit to properly care for 

 them and for foundlings, and babies whose mothers have died, the 

 Society maintains a boarding out department, making use of private 

 families, usually in the country. These homes are selected with 



