Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1910 — To Study Babies. [ARTICLE]

To Study Babies.

Saying that it is as Important that college women should be taught the scientific care of infants as that college men should study agricultural problems, Dr. Edna D. Day, professor of home economics in the University of Missouri, at Columbia, Mo., has planned for the women students an elective course in the raising of babies. Forty women in Dr. Day’s close, practically the entire number, have taken up the work. The class visits the Parker Memorial Hospital, where Dr. Day lectures, while a nurse bathes a baby. Such subjects as the temperature of the water, when and how often a soap should be used, what kind of towels are most sanitary and what kind of clothing must be used to keep the baby’s skin from being irritated are discussed. Dr. Day believes that a nursery should be run in connection with the university where women of Columbia could leave their babies through the day.