Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1916 — Buffalo Babies Having Six Months’ Health Race [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Buffalo Babies Having Six Months’ Health Race

O UFFALO, N. Y. —Buffalo’s health race is on. Three thousand babies of D varying ages, from five months to two years, participants in the contest, are having a six months’ period of proper food, outdoor sleeping, clean

clothes and regular exercises. Only those babies who were registered in Buffalo’s big better-babies’ contest qualified for the health race, which is to be concluded in December with a baby show at which the mental and physical development of the child at that time will be compared with its condition as registered in June. Those found to have made the most pronounced gains in mental and physical growth will be given blue ribbons.

By the first of July the race was , fairly under way, when district nurses for the first time visited the homes of the participants, where requested, to give instructions on child management Eyes of the medical world are turned on this unique contest. Application of advanced methods in feeding, exercising and general care of the child governs the work of grooming the babes for the December examinations. Advlca of child specialists is free for the asking to mothers of those children registered in the contest Milk stations are established in every quarter of the city. , Over a dozen of the 3,000 babies which passed through the hands of 50 physicians, judges in various departments, were pronounced perfect of fora, feature and mentality at the June show, but they must during the next six months register general development Just as much as do the weaker infants, o b 0 DXber - >»<»■ candidates U> a proposed national contest.