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Show Municipal Child-Rearing. The town Of Huddersflsld, England, which stands In the front rank of the cities that have adopted the plan of public pub-lic utilities owned and controlled by the municipal authorities, has recently taken a further step, and provided for ohild- rearing under official direction. Realizing Realiz-ing that a large part of the death rate among the poor was of Infants under 1 vear of age. owing to Insufficient or unintelligent un-intelligent care and nourishment, the Mavor of the cty offered ft bonus of Jl to every child born In one of the districts that should attain the age of U moulds This offer, which Is to hold good dur-Ihg dur-Ihg the term of the present Incumbent's Incum-bent's Mayoralty, led the lOceJ health authorities to consider whether t pi could not bo taken toward saving the lives of Infants Accordingly they decided to offer a reward re-ward of ono shilling to the first person who should Inform tho medical officer Of the birth Of a child within forty-eight hours of its occurrence, The moth, i l then to be visited by physicians and women wo-men health visitors, who Will instruct her ns to tho best methods of feed-lng, feed-lng, washing and clothing the child, v.iiii.- In addition, detailed Instructions are to be prepared and printed for gen-. gen-. pal dlsi ributlon Tho health visitors will also examine ogngnsaszinsBaiaaHsaB the homes of the mothers nnd factories -.nd other places where women are employed, em-ployed, and cases where deaths of children chil-dren under 1 year havo occurred will be Investigated Furthermore, a years experiment will Ih- undertaken With ilav-nurserv where children will be cared fOT and sterilized milk will be supplied i.,r' the babies Hudderslleld Is a manufacturing manu-facturing town, and the authorities consider con-sider that Its present strength can best be preserved through maintaining Its native na-tive labor They therefore believe that If the. Infant mortality Is reduc-d to a minimum, a largo majority of the children chil-dren would grow to manhood and womanhood wo-manhood The experiment le Interesting -I larpi r's Weekly |