Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-12 | Page 1 | Chicago Begins Fight to Save Babies' Lives |

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Date	1908-07-12
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Chicago Begins Fight to Save Babies' Lives
Type	article
Date	1908-07-12
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	1
OCR Text	Show CHICAGO BEGINS FIGHT TO SAVE BABIES' LIVES CHICAGO, July 11. To save babies lives, the city council of Chicago made a special appropriation of 510.000 last night. Intestinal diseases among infants, caused chiefly by the hot weather, have been of such frecpient occurrunco ln Chicago Chi-cago that, according to reliable llgures, the deaths of babies due to these com- plaints this year will reach the startling l total of 31.111. I Alarmed at the prospect of this wholesale whole-sale slaughter of the innocents, the cun-i cun-i ell authorized the transfer of ?10,000 to : pay 100 physicians, who will bo em-1 em-1 ployed by the city lo disseminate infor-: infor-: nintlon concerning tho causes and prevention pre-vention of summer sickness among babies.
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