CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITS 331 



MARYLAND ASSOCIATION FOR STUDY AND PREVENTION OF 



INFANT MORTALITY 



(Comprising the Mothers' Relief Society and the Habits' Milk 

 Fund -Asaociaton of Baltimore 



Model consultation for nurslings: Mottoes on every panel, "Nurse 

 your baby." Central panel, "Consultations for Nurslings." 

 (i) "To encourage maternal nursing. (2) "To keep well 

 babies well." (3) "To tell mothers how errors resulting in 

 disordered nutrition of their infants may be corrected." (4) 

 "Consultations for nurslings are the most powerful agents we 

 possess for the reduction of infant mortality in crowded com- 

 munities." "Over 90 per cent, of mothers could nurse their 

 babies if they would." "Before weaning the baby consult a 

 doctor who knows." (See illustration, Plate V.) 



Equipment: 



One set of record cards 



One set of baby scales, Dr. Erlanger's device 



One examination table 



Centrifuge set of Liffert & Beam's tubes for the determination 

 of butter fat in human milk 



Three clinical thermometers 



One stethoscope 



One breast pump 



One tuberculin container with scarifier 



One infant's stomach tube 



One lactometer 



One Esbach's albuminator 



Porcelain hand basin 



Basin and pitcher 

 Charts: 



Comparative mortality, breast and bottle-fed children in Paris 



" Berlin 

 " for five 

 years in Berlin 



Milk station fully equipped: 



(The station was in operation during the week of the exhibition) 

 Table showing home apparatus for modification of milk 

 Dietition counter 

 Set of electric stoves (See illustration, Plate VI.) 



Photographs: 



Set of twelve. Milk depots conducted by Babies' Milk Fund 

 Association ; weighing the baby; distributing the milk; advis- 

 ing mothers 



Set of fifteen illustrating errors in feeding 



Set of twelve. Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Sick Babies 



Set of five of Burnside Farm 



Large photograph of mother nursing child: "This baby is get- 

 ting a square deal. Is yours?" 



Provisions made in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, for care of 

 contagious diseases among children 



Wall card: Objects of the Mothers' Relief Society 

 Two show cases containing articles of clothing 



