boys weaker than girls in view of the number r of men killed by the war the re result suit of a study now being made by an english physician Is rather pessimistic us as regards the future masculine supremacy of the race for a period covering nearly five years his study indicates that tho the mortality of boys under a year of age has been from to as compared with for girl babies notwithstanding the fact that at birth boys boyer have the advantage of tour four to five ounces of weight over the ave average ra girt baby they have haie less res resistant st ant power and are therefore there forc less able to id disease the reports upon babies babic born since the war are incomplete but they indicate that while the number of boys born Is considerably in excess of the girls the number who survive their first year asso dinue much 11 ll less that there Is no hope of th tb P men of tile next generation equaling tile the number of women