Medicine: Fat Babies

Said Director J. L. Blumenthal of the bureau of child hygiene, New York City: “The really fat baby has a mass of material that is of no use to him at all in fighting off ills and diseases of babyhood. . . . The grownups, in the interest of health, exercise. . . . Why, then, overstuff the baby so the mother can boast about how fat he is?”