It is a common saying that no one but a millionaire or a pauper can afford a surgical operation or a trained nurse.

We are moving, too slowly, but still moving, toward some form of provision of doctors, nurses, hospital and convalescent care, to which people of refinement, of independent feeling but of limited purse, can resort when they need such aid without a sense of humiliation or incurring the danger of wholly unsuitable companionship.

Whatever difficulties there may be in securing adequate aid of this sort to adults, there can be none in the case of children.
When we started Boards of Health we definitely outlined a path from the doctor's office and the nurse's service to the public school and from the public school to the home.

We saw more clearly as the years went on that that path must be worn by many feet if we would have adults strong and well and ready for the work of the world.

We have in many Boards of Health (as so efficiently working in New York City under Dr.Josephine S.Baker) Children's Departments, officered by those specially engaged in baby-saving, in child hygiene, in the health of school attendants, and in the general instruction of mothers in the care of children.