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Show IM VNTaoHTVMTV. Tjic Health Department of New 0rkC1t) re,iorls that during the wc- k ending June Uth tliere was a marked increase in the mort-Iity of children uuJer Ave years of age in that city Tho number of deaths re lotted, asfrom di eases peculiar to the hot seasoH, was douulc that for the week ending May 31st The Infant molality of Xew ork is usually very great. Yet it i-a city of sevrcri aud water pipes aud modern improvements of van ous kinds And it is also a monogamous mon-ogamous and "Christian" city.or is so nude-stood When those hot waves which seep over Gotham prostra'e o many innocents and the graveyarJs are crowded with the corjes of the slain, wo hear no outcries like thoe which go up from Utah ennks aud chronic growlers, who charge all misfortunes mis-fortunes to "Jlormon" doings or doctrines TLe iniant mortality of the world j is amazing It is due, no doubt, in I a large degrce'to the lack of vigor and vitality in the immature. This I roeeeJs from pre-natal causes. The fault may not always be in the pa-i pa-i reu's but in more remote ancestry. But it originates In violated natural nat-ural law. U hen the production of tl e human hu-man species Is regulated ty ra'lonil princi les and by divine counsels, the results in longevity will bo as astonishing as Is the pts-nt premature pre-mature decay "A child shall die an hundred years old," is p-edlcted a one ef tuo events or the millennium As tills fondly anticipated period is dran-inguear.it is time that prepara tlons were being made fcr it, and among them is the proper production produc-tion of the race, which presuppu-es correct nn-ital relation? God Al mighty will have something to iray on this vital question and what He reveal, will be heeded aud practiced, or the restoration tor rimiuve vh,or and longevity foretold b theproph ets to take j lace in the latter days cannot be a-coniLdifhed as tbty have declared it. The mortality in Utau wi'i compare com-pare favorably with that of other iarU of the world, and its record of longevity is a good one. Iti--emi take to imagine tint when 1 lural fam'ly rclitions were undi-turbed. the mortality of chiidreu in such families was g'eater than in monogamous mono-gamous househo'ds according to the re-pective numliers The returns re-turns would demonstrate the con-trarv con-trarv Hut this ajtart, tin subject of in fant mortality is of serious moment, and the cau-es which lead to its prevalence are worthy of c.i'ep in vesIgatiou That tl o prcrluction jf immals or the best Hty-'. is a sub-iect sub-iect of such great intere-t to many srojle, and the irupagalkin ef tiie ittiiau race remains so iMver-ally 1 1 matter of comparative IndiSlr- ' ncc, is one of the mirvelsof this ! ige of jirog-es-s and uoasted inteJH- , ;cnce. It will become one of the op'cs of the times before many years iae passed away. , |
