Show i. r Overworked Ov Mothers No No one knows how many mothers are are at at work for gain outside th their their- j h homes I v This t This fact is brought out in a report of the childrens children's bureau of f fth th the United Stat States s department of labor which says that it is impossible t 4 e the relative importance of the high de death h r rate te among b balnes of working mothers until it is known how many mothers there ar 1 work ork in industry however have revealed infant death s j 3 Investigations r an average ia fate of f out of every 1000 babi babies s in a steel making and coal mining this u a against a rate ate of 84 out of of every every 1000 in ma ina a residential suburb r iT Th more favorable the civic and family surroundings and the the lie general conditions of life the more clearly are th thy they y re- re ted in the lessened infant mortality The he report goes on to show that no deductions can be made about t l r lation between the general infant mortality rate and the industrial indus indus- tr trial l employment of women until the facts about the number and prop proportion pro pro- p portion of mothers at work contained in the census returns are made available by tabulation It has been shown however that of all babies that die during the during the first firt year 40 per cent die within the first month This is due in most cas cases s to the fact that the mother did not receive the proper proper prenatal prenatal care l or was as overworked right up to the t time of th the birth of her baby I |