THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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© Helen D. Van Eaton 



WHERE BULLS AND BEARS FIGHT IT OUT, WITH LAMBS AS INNOCENT BYSTANDERS I 

 THE "FLOOR" OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 



It is asserted that no other feature of the newspapers of the world is so widely read, 

 as the New York financial column, which deals principally with happenings that have their 

 inception in this big room. 



ing their children as "bottle babies." 

 Nearly 50,000 kiddies visit the milk sta- 

 tions every year and disease germs have 

 a hard road to travel to get into their milk. 



The health department endeavors to 

 get into touch with the mothers in the 

 poor districts as early in the prenatal 

 period as possible, and by its visiting 

 nurse service gives the babies the boost 

 of a proper advent into the world. After 



a baby is born, it is visited every other 

 day at first, then twice a week, and finally 

 is sent with its mother to the milk station. 

 Under such a course only 26 babies out 

 of each 1,000 die during their first month 

 on earth, as against 36 where this policy 

 is not followed. 



After . the milk-station stage on the 

 battle front of existence, the child moves 

 up past the children's clinic to the public 



