Nurse! Nurse! Come quick! Mister Flaherty has throwed bilin' water on Mrs. Flaherty and she's near dead!" Our excited visitor at the Infant Welfare Station in one of Chicago's worst slum districts was an Irish woman. The nurse who is the head of the station and has charge of the babies registered in that district and I, the nutritionist whose special interest is the pre-school child, questioned our voluble guest.