The Infant Welfare Association in Birmingham, Alabama organizes a campaign against the high death rate of babies, which is primarily due to infant cholera, dysentery, and typhoid. All of these conditions are attributable to poor sanitation/sewage infrastructure and to "separate but (un)equal" policies. The association launches a "6-month program providing a white visiting nurse, obstetric services in the homes, and instructions in baby care and food" (Patterson, 2008). The nurses focus on prevention and refer patients who require treatment to hospitals. However, only one of the area's hospitals admits Black children, and is therefore continuously overcrowded. White nurses are permitted to "attend" to Black patients, but have no means of providing additional care as needed.