ANIMALS WANTED

Grey River Argus, 6 August 1937, Page 5

ANIMALS WANTED

Not Babies ] SYDNEY, July 20. “Children in Sydney are not treat- j ed like dogs, and it is a thousand pities that they are not.” This was the astonishing statement that was made at the Men’s Fellowship of the Waverley Methodist Church yesterday afternoon, when Mr. George Fitzpatrick the honorary administrator of the Food for Babies’ Fund, addressed the Fellowship. Mr. Fitzpatrick instanced cases where unwanted babies were found on doorsteps, in telephone booths, in back lanes and in private gardens, all having been abandoned. He challenged the members to cite one instance where a prize Pomeranian or a good Airedale had been similarly abandoned. He told of one case where a prize bitch had been subjected to a Caesarean operation in order that her puppies might be born alive. There was in attendance a skilled surgeon, a qualified anaesthetists and two trained nurses. Mr. Fitzpatrick said he considered that this bitch and her puppies were given treatment far tetter than that given to many babies in Sydney. He also gave instances of vArere mothers, in some cases the wives of returned soldiers, had appealed to the Food for Babies, Fund for milk for nourishment and fresh vegetables, which were ordered by doctors, and, had it not been for the Fund, this help would have been denied necessitous cases, for they had previously, been refused help. The children were to-day suffering] from the evils consequent on the existing environment; conditions which they had no hand in creating. The Fodd for Babies’ Fund, he added, had given away the equivalent of millions of bottles of milk, as well as tens of thousands of eggs. “It is a callous commentary on the boosted Christian civilisation that milk is given to pigs or else deliberately destroyed when the children look for succor and strength,” concluded Mr. Fitzpatrick. Mr. B. A. V. Castelli presided and moved a vote of thanks. The members of the Fellowship will on Saturday visit the Dalwood Health Home.