Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Steps in the Evolution of Baby Welfare Work in Chicago, Development From 1905 to 1914: Together With Items of Interest Concerning Infant Welfare Work in Germany, France and England
Relief workers found great difficulty in persuading moth ers to take their children to the hospitals. Many of them could not speak English, and had come from countries where they had acquired a deep-seated belief that hospitals used sick folk as clinical material. -the black bottle and other superstitions held terrors for these people, which were often beyond the persuasion of the friends who urged hospital care.
Many mothers had the same point of view as the Greek mother of little Nicholas, whose story is recorded by the Vis iting Nurses. The nurse was urging her to carry Nicholas - three months old, and the first son - to the tent and leave him there. If he were not a baby, nurse, perhaps I couldbut would those nurses there understand his baby-greek? Me, his mother, I understand, but he no talk English baby talk yet.
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