Show INFANT MORTALITY IS LOWER efforts of health officiate officials during ajit five years yeara have drought brought down death list in cities what the american cities are doing and can do toward preventing in taint faint mortality and the high death rate of children under live years yeara dt 6 age Is the subject of a issued by the childrens ns bureau bireau of 0 the dopart department part ment of labor it la is the purpose of the bureau to issue a similar but bul letin annually and in time almo to make it a complete manual for municipal and philanthropic activities in the direction of child welfare summer gampa campaign igno tor for babies lives have been waged with such buch marvelously good effect in some cities that it seems to the bureau important to enlist the energies of 0 as aa many cities tn in tilt athla work as aa possible to this end it 11 will will be helpful to colled collect and present for or the information of all the little or much that la Is being done by the various cities the efforts of city health officials have resulted in the last ten years in III reducing the general death rate in cities below that of the rural dla dis and villages this reduction in the general death rate to Is an encouraging indication of what Is possible of accomplishment in efforts to reduce the infant death rate babies dleon die of diseases which to a large extent are preventable and thus thua when welfare work Is IB directed toward saving their i lives the response Is immediate and decided |