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2 WILMiTTE LIFE July 15, 1927 Devils Food Cake Chocolate Iced, Mocha Filled. Lots of good butter and real chocolate in the dough. No wonder it's such a popular item at The Dutch Oven. Find out how delicious this cake can be. Try one for Saturday and Sunday-SOc and $1.00. APRON STRINGS REAL BOON TO INFANT LIFE State Health Director Finds Expert Supervision Responsible for Lowered Mortality . Apron string · are a boo n to liie ii they flov.· from the uniform of a public htalth nurse. Thi s at least is th e c:: m clusion of Dr. Isaac · D. Rawlings. ~ta t e health director, who points out that infant and childhood mortalit\· i:' lowest by a significant marg in in th o~c par.ts of the state which employ the largest number of public health nur ~t~ . "The thirtY-three countie:-~ that make up the nortliern third of th e stat e Jo, t onlv sixtv-six infants out of each 1000 hor-n la st year while the thirty-four counties that make up the south ern · third lost eighty-eight," said Dr. Ra\,·lings. "The thirty-three northern counties employ eighty-four public health nurses per each 10.000 births while the thirty-four southern counties employ only twenty-four such nurses per 10,000 births. In the thirty-fh·e central counties the infant death rate was sixty-eight per 1000 births and th e number of health nurses active in the area was forty-three per 10.000 birtb s. "Cook county out side of Chicago had ninety-eight public health nurse s per 10,000 births and an infant mortalitY of sixty-three compared with a rate sixty-six inside Chicago where the number of nurses was about eightythree per 10,000 birth. . Likewi se the counties of the northern third of the state with Cook excepted had an infant death rate ·of sixty-five per 1000 births while employing eig ht~·-i i,· e nurses per 10,000 births. "These statistics show clearly tllat public health nursing service · under wise medical guidance saves life at its source to a significant degree. ~[edi ~al, sanitar.Y and hygienic knowleqge ts so complex and technical and ha s developed so rapidly that the average busy mother cannot hope to get from books in practical shape all the infor mation helpful in keer>ing babies well. The public health nurse working un der competent medical supervision, translates for the busy housewife ami mother the technical and complicated findings of research laboratories into practical everyday usefulness. "Some counties and cities with public health nursing service may appear in the statistical tables with higher infant death rates than other similar places that have no nurses. That happens frequently where small population area~ are considered and in localities where special obstetric and other medical facilities attract a large clientele from outlying viCinities and communities beyond the corporation boundary lint. Other things being equal, however. there is no gainsaying that the apron strings of the public health nurse ar~ mighty good ties with which to hind the newborn babe to a healthful stan in life." Other Good Things f'Or an enjoyable week . . end. Wonderfu I assortments of coffee cakes, cookies, plain and sweet rolls, and plain and fane y breads. TWO STORES 112 9 Central Avenue, Wilmette Phone Wilmette 2998 1504 Howard Street, Chicago Phone Sheldrake 9638 · oi SHORTY IS CALLING ~ HIS HOST OF FRIENDS TO THE FORMAL OPENING OF HIS NEW BARBER SHOP SATURDAY, JULY 16 AT NUMBER SIX ELECTRIC PLACE UUST AROUND THE CORNER FROM THE STATE BANK) Cars Crub in Ravine: Drivers Escaue ln. i ury SHORTY'S BARBER SHOP WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HAIRCUTTING A SPECIALITY THREE CHAIRS AND MOST MODERN APPOINTMENTS PHONE WILMETTE 4130 Early last Sundav morning as ]. T. Wilson. of 2.~~ W f>c;t Division street. Chicago. wa~ dr.ivinl!" a car down the hill on Sheritlan rn~d. in the vicinity of Fischer's lane . Huhhard Woods. a tire hlew out. cau~<inP' him to lose control of the car which crashed into a oassinszo machine driven hv T~r.k CarC'nn. of 340 Walnut strePt. Winnetka. Rnth rars were damaged but no on~ wa~ iniured. accordinR" to the report of Patrolman Charles M. Bemus of the \Vinnetka police. Mrs. Marguerite C. Taylor of 400 Eisrhth street has as her guests, Mrs. Willard Burns and her daughter of Boise, Idaho. '