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Show INFANT MORTALITY IS LOWER Efforts of Health Officials During Last Five Years Have Brought Dowr Death List in Cities. What the American cities are doing do-ing and can do toward preventing in-faint in-faint mortality and the high death rate of children under five years cf age is the subject of a bulltin issued by the children's bureau of the department de-partment of labor. It is the purpose of the bureau to issue a similar bulletin bul-letin annually and in time to make it a complete manual for municipal and philanthropic activities in the direction di-rection of child welfare. Summer campaigns for babies' lives have been waged with such marvelously good effect in some cities, that it seems to the bureau important to enlist the energies of as many cities in this wor; as possible. To this end it will be helpful to collect and present for the information of all, the little or much that is being done by the various vari-ous cities. The efforts of city health officials have resulted in the last ten years in reducing the general death rate in cities, below that of the rural districts dis-tricts and villages. This reduction in the general death rate is an encourag- mg indication of what is possible or accomplishment in efforts to reduce the infant death rate. Babies die of diseases which to a large extent are preventable, and thus when welfare work is directed toward saving their lives the response is immediate and decided. |