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BUSIES'/ “STORK IN CITY HAS HEARD FIRST WAIL OF2,400 ATLANTA BABES11 Marries Couples, Attends Mothers andChristens Babes.In addition to hln being n fine eleven-pound bnby nnd the namesake of Hon. Jamea L. Mayaon, candidate for congress, a bnby who came Into thla world on October 4 has an unueual claim to distinction—not so much because of himself ns on account of Dr. J. W. Carmichael, who played the stork.Young Mr. Calloway Is the twenty-four-hundredth baby that Dr. Carmichael. who. for brevity, might bo called The Stork. has assisted to enter this world. They were all white babies and all Atlantans. A record of their birthdays would make a good calendar of the twenty-five years of this particular stork's practice, only there would be about three times too many days to the year.Dr. Carmichael Is also a minister and he has frequently assisted at the wadding of a couple and later at the birth of their young hopeful. Once he carried It as far as the baptising.After assisting at the birth of 1,400 babies. Dr. Carmichael Is rather well qualified to talk upon race suicide, the feminine peril, tho alleged delloete health of womankind and kindred subjects.That there Is no evidence of race suicide In Atlanta, Dr. Carmichael positively affirms. The babies are coming just as fast as the population Is growing. he says. If there Is any falling off In the/hurnber of babies It Is due to a decrease In the niarrtagp rate.More boys are bom thun girls, he states, but this does not give much hope to those who fear the feminine peril, as boy babies stand less chance of surviving the hardships of babyhood than girls. This apparently refutes former beliefs concerning feminine health.In his twenty-five years of stork work Dr. Carmichael has assist ml at the birth of one set of triplets. TheyDR. J. W. CARMICHAEL.Ho has helped 2/400 young Atlsn tans to begin life.were boys. The first of the 1,400 bnblcs was a relative of Henry Grady. Just a few year', ago Dr. Carmichael p*-r. formed the woddlng ceremony for this young man. In this way reversing his usual process. About eighteen years ago the stork assisted at the birth of a girl and Just n few days ago ho attended upon th» birth of her son.Dr. Carmichael knows the very first history of so many young people that he can hardly turn a comer in Atlanta without seeing some one whom he undoubtedly saw first.Young Jim Mnyson might not have been the twenty-four-hundredth had the telephone company not taken out Dr. Carmichael’s telephone about a year ago. Aa a result of this Dr. Car-, mlchael alleges In his suit against the company that he lost some practice for a month or more, during the absence of his ’phone. The Jury failed to agree on a verdict last Monday.
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Atlanta Georgian and News
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sat, Oct 12, 1907
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