BABY WARD OF THE
COURT WAS DEAD.
WHEN DOCTOR SENT BY THE
JUDGE ARRIVED.
Other Infants in the Hughes Ma-
ternity Home in a Weakly
Condition -- Laws to Regu-
late Such Places.
Measures which might have been employed by the board of health, the county attorney or the probate judge to force a more satisfactory regulation of the U. S. G. Hughes maternity home at 336 Washington avenue, Kansas City, Kas., may be delayed because of the fact that Hughes has sold his institution and is now in doubt as to whether or not he will again attempt to operate another in the city.
Yesterday Juvenile Court Judge Van B. Prather sent a physician to investigate the conditions prevailing at the Hughes institute and to look after the needs of a baby in custody of his court. Dr. Faust, the physician appointed, says he found the conditions at the institution not up to his standard, and, what was of more importance to the juvenile court, the baby had been dead for twenty-four hours. Other children in the maternity home were weakly.
Yesterday afternoon Dr. A. J. Fulton of the board of health asked Dr. J. L. Eager, city physician, to examine the Hughes maternity home and report on the conditions existing there at once to his office. Dr. Eager investigated the home, but made no report last night.
The programme proposed by the county attorney involves taking the matter of regulating and controlling such homes and hospitals before the city council at an early date. This may be done at the next regular meeting of the council next Tuesday night.
Note: The Hughes Maternity Home also figures into the murder trial of Sarah Morash.
