334 CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITS 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STUDY AND PREVENTION OF 

 INFANT MORTALITY 



Contrast rooms: Before and after visits of nurse and social worker 



Model nursery: (See illustration, Plate VIII.) 



Model bed room: (See illustration, Plate IX.) 



Electric device: Banner and flashlight. Extent of infant mortality 

 Infantile death rate throughout the civilized world (See illus- 

 tration, Plate X.) 



Charts: 



Chief causes of death in first year in the United States and the 



saving that could be effected by preventive measures 

 Death rates at each age in the United States 

 Death rates from contagious diseases in the United States 

 Death roll from contagious diseases in Baltimore, 1909 

 Principal causes of death of infants in England and Wales, 1903 



Wall cards: 



Prevention of contagious diseases 

 "Wjhooping cough is deadly to young children" 

 "Don't let your children have measles," etc. 



"80 per cent, of babies dying under I year of age are bottle-fed 

 babies" 



Frame: 



Containing samples of soothing syrups sold in Baltimore 

 Placard: 



"Don't make a dope fiend of your baby" 



Exhibit on Eugenics (Prepared by Professor Wm. Kellicott of Gouch- 



er College, Baltimore). 

 Wall cards: 



Defining eugenics 



Eleven mottoes descriptive thereof 

 Charts: 



Two illustrating Mendel's law of heredity 

 Photographs: (Diagrams) 



Three family histories of polydactylism 



Six generations of vagabondism 



Heredity of angio-neurotic-oedema in two families 



History of split foot and lobster claw in two families 



Inheritance of) deaf mutism with inter-marriage between affected 

 families 



Inheritance of night-blindness in a single family 



Photographs: 



Submitted in contest for best one of Baltimore breast-fed babies 

 (See illustration, Plate XL) 



Frame: 



One hundred breast-fed babies. Exhibited by Dr. Pohl, Baltimore 



Dolls: Illustrating methods of dressing babies in different parts 

 of the world 

 India 

 Japan 

 Siam 



Swaddled: 

 American Indian 

 Italian 



