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Show WAGES AND BABIES WHEN wage earning fathers earn under $450, a year they may expect to see their babies die in large numbers; if they earn $1250 and over they may expect to see them live. The fathers of 88 per cent of the babies studied ' by the U. S. Children's Bureau earned less than $1-' 250 a year; 27 per cent earned less than $550; a few earned under $450. In this last group the in-1 fant mortality rate is almost 1 70, an appailing figure, fig-ure, and the, rate ranges from this down to approximately approx-imately 125 in the group earning less than $550 but! not under $450. The infant mortality rate in the "$1250 and over" group is approximately 59. As the income doubled the mortality rate was more than cut in two. Under present conditions the public protection of mothers and babies is needed, for the loss of mother an infant life is nation-wide and needs nation-wide attention. The Sheppard-Towner maternity matern-ity bill would help the states bear the necessary expenses ex-penses for providing adequate medical and nursing care and proper instruction to mothers, and would leave the states free to carry on this work according ac-cording to their various needs. |