To date 73 babies have lived at The Cradle, and been started on the road to a healthier childhood. And there have been twelve adoptions into good homes of babies from The Cradle.
The work for Cradle babies is done almost entirely by volunteer workers who come daily to its headquarters at 296 Howe Winling. Several of the workers are qualified nurses, and Dr. Francis K. Nance gives specialized medical services to the babies, free of charge.
The money required to carry on Cradle work is acquired chiefly by means of the monthly bridge and mahjongg held at the foreign Y.M.C.A. and it is hoped that the following year will bring many more supporters of this bridge-mahjongg tea. And rany local merchants have made it possible to run The Cradle at a minimum of expense by giving, or selling at cost, their wares, such as medicines, milk, cereals and tomato juice.
This year The Cradle has received a much appreciated gift of several tons of coal from the United States Marine Corps. and a case of evaporated milk recently from an anonymous source, A woman's skull parts of a skeleton and an old revolver with one chamber empty, were discovered by workmen demolishing some old property in Newington Butts, S. E. recently. The revolver was very rusty and encrusted with soil, said the foreman. "It certainly looked as if something had happened in the house a long time ago." Police Officers took charge of the relics.
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