Show SLAYING SLA 1111 I G TUB Till INFANTS Now New York Is raid card to be suffering from tram an nn epidemic that carrl oft off the tho babies bahles by time the and that bat bot batIon lOll Ion the tho efforts of or the physicians 1 n the cause of the disease dl eue seems mema to b be a II mystery In ono one week weel there thero about add JO deaths death from tram of chil ehll children droll dren less leIs than five live years of age and ond andin andin in Brooklyn there were IM death duth In Inthe Inthe Inthe the work week The epidemic li Is regarded HH an nil fill thin Iho more remarkable the burnt board o ot Of health has hai taken unusual pre precautions precautions i cautions to r reduce duce the rate of ot Infant I mortality A campaign of education hM been carried on and mothers es os especially In the poorer districts live have boon been told In circulars Just how to care CAf tar for their children It seems that the tha Inspectors have hao found the milk supply I anti and tho the fruit above the average quality and the Infant mortality can nn therefore not be traced to impure food One Olle Of ot the health Is III quoted thu thus We have mm one hundred and forty fit at work amour among the tables belles of the thu tenement nail and still mill th tM the deaths Increase In number WR We W have also allo sixteen going from lions house to 10 hours relieving dl tr ant and 1 l expect to have to Increase largely thle Chia un unusually unusually usually largo staff The rite scourge Is hI nil all tho tiro more Inexplicable In view of the fact tact that adult mortality tins has Ins been bun no 1111 larger than In other y yearn nm A doctor who line has studied the this think that tho thu mortality IB is dun due to the week weal condition In which many mony children are lire on account of or attacks of I diseases last There There fh re were week last year he lie HO says 8 when whon we e hail in III Manhattan and ond the Bronx alone aloni 2000 canes co es of contagious There Ther uve ure as ns litany ns ate 1000 cases cares of m measles 0 In n II While a Il large lare percenta per ller percentage cento centa o e recovered the tho left the tho th constitution debilitated d the re return return retUrn turn of ot summer unsanitary food rood hit 1111 m Properly given has liae caused Intestinal disturbance Whatever the thu cause entice Is III It may limy be Ie bewell well to accept the lesson lewan on that tho t science does not know all 1111 there IH la h to know about life le and oni death nod that It dues not control those thoo Issues entirely ly Marry have hAVO fondly fondi to turned to science as a n substitute for lor It Is well Hint they should at times limos be bo reminded of or Impotency of their Idol Our ago age b be I sides Is III noted for far prenatal slaying of ot Infants infanta It would bo be a particularly just retribution If It Ics Ice should therefore appear rendering one ono of at the crimes of or the nice age still null morn more terrible by attacking the Infants Infante ns OIl was teas the tho rose COM In Egypt where whore the des destroyer troyer slew slow the tho children attar the hind bad been 1 on guilty of child murder or In III order to keep Israel in bondage |