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CITY MILK SUPPLY 



board of health nurses were put into the districts where infant mortality 

 was greater than 20 per cent. Each nurse was instructed to reduce 

 infant mortality by reducing infant morbidity and her reliance was to be 

 her own ability to instruct in and demonstrate the hygienic care and 

 feeding of babies. Each nurse was furnished with a map of her district 

 showing by a red dot where there was a baby under a year old and by a 

 black one where the death of a baby had occurred. The maps showed the 

 location of each street, alley, house, barn and privy. The nurses worked 

 from house to house and each nurse had 100 to 150 babies to care for. 

 No milk stations or other baby-saving agencies were in the immediate 

 neighborhood of any of these districts nor were any established. The 

 results attained are illustrated by those in the four districts given in 

 Table 123. 



TABLE 123. REDUCTION OF INFANT MORTALITY IN DETROIT, MICH., IN 1914, BY 



DISTRICT NURSES (PRICE) 



Summary of the Four Districts, 5-340, 11-440, 16-320 and 16-400 



These excellent results were brought about by correcting errors that 

 are so wrong that many will wonder that the mistakes could have been 

 made of committing them; they include such things as these: 



1. Feeding babies beer, coffee, sausage, etc. 



2. Allowing the dirty uncovered nursing bottle to stand on the kitchen 



