mortality will be overcome,
because ignorant and incompetent mothers--the greatest cause of infant
mortality--will be educated and instructed in the rudiments of eugenics and
will consequently, to a large extent, cease to be ignorant and incompetent;
that the desecration of young wives will stop, and stop forever, because
vice and disease will be branded and exposed; that the feeble-minded, the
deaf-mute, the imbecile, and the insane, will no longer be allowed to
propagate their kind, to the permanent detriment of the race.

When such clubs are established, and when all mothers do their individual
duty in the interest of the race, we shall begin to see the dawn of a
promise that will achieve its supreme success in the generations that will
people the earth in the eugenic aftertime.

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CHILD-BIRTH

CHAPTER VI

"Solicitude for children is one of the signs of a growing civilization.
To cure is the voice of the past; to prevent, the divine whisper of
to-day."

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN.

PREPARATIONS FOR THE CONFINEMENT

THE BIRTH CHAMBER--WHAT TO PROVIDE FOR A CONFINEMENT--READY TO PURCHASE
OBSTETRICAL OUTFITS--POSITION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE BED--HOW TO
PROPERLY PREPARE THE ACCOUCHMENT BED--THE KELLY PAD--THE ADVANTAGES OF
THE KELLY PAD--SHOULD A BINDER BE USED?--SANITARY NAPKINS--HOW TO
CALCULATE THE PROBABLE DATE OF THE CONFINEMENT--OBSTETRICAL TABLE--WHEN
SHOULD A PREGNANT WOMAN FIRST CALL UPON HER PHYSICIAN--REGARDING THE
CHOICE OF A PHYSICIAN--HOW TO KNOW THE RIGHT KIND OF A PHYSICIAN FOR A
CONFINEMENT--THE SELECTION OF A NURSE--THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TRAINED
AND A MATERNITY NURSE--DUTIES OF A CONFINEMENT NURSE--THE REQUISITES OF
A GOOD CONFINEMENT NURSE--THE PERSONAL RIGHTS OF A CONFINEMENT
NURSE--CRITICIZING AND GOSSIPING ABOUT PHYSICIANS.

THE BIRTH CHAMBER

The room in which the confinement is to take place should be selected with
care. In many cases there will be no choice for the reason that there will
be only one suitable bedroom available. Where practicable however a room
having the following accessories, or as many of them as is possible, should
be given the preference.

1.--Good light, and a southern exposure.

2.--Capable of being well ventilated and well heated if necessary.

3.--Running water if plumbing i