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^ ;vu..fcv,yvij OHU 11 nc.piivu HUUUC tpOUt. Bill ft*'.will have no more trouble ” tl.o Infanticide was openly csrri»d on inth’S fcity a few years aco, but tlie expos* mou.8, tires of tlicT)0as diploma colleges byake boice up the evil fora .tiniy 'Midwives land lantiu people conducting private lying-in hos-ivf-V .P'tals'werp r -qpircd to register;at: the P. office of-the boardof healtli/.and for awhen time Ibry werc undor police surveill*living ance. Places of tbis kind are.now be-tvned coming more numerous, and they are • ’scattered til over’thcitys.n CX- ♦ t L— XL r - «-' Vi There a^Q ^o l^sltbah 250 midwivesi and ^registered at the Board of Health otece.k ^ ^ I a * ^ am.in-emailwerlt;S°ti fori i iota Shethe,tobiMorfron:sailenessWettakenan]stealleftJATitoVonstabtitAs a iiu?8.c in‘a* ;private'family snch a ?*?*} . woman might earn $15 per week, but; the opportun'ities alfirded for obtaiiriYtg ^Sthy. big fees for secret work induces .manywas women ^toresiaV.lhh private lying-in skey9 houses.* The official records show,that l?*l * Hbere ^ere 26,295bi;ths in this city 4ast ?!!* -year, and the unofficial Arrivals, ’which , . y ebb, were not recorded with joy-^were many I y™8 1, and hundred moire. ,. . . I mei®T~ While ftferd are xhanylplaces where kno id be- waifs will bb'takenv *care of in at'emer: I Pe?. the genry, thereis; no foundling’hospital .in Te}i this citv. * From the statiotrbouss jndJmaternity.hospitals,, where foundlings I mu k are temporarily placed, the.friendless lit- ?inliJe ones; hre conveyed to 'the Alms r11^over- House.,, ' { ' - ' . : .v ‘ loviri the
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Athens Weekly Banner Watchman
Athens, Georgia, US
Tue, Apr 23, 1889
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