| Show UNWANTED BABY BIG PROBLEM OF LIFE IN CHINA more than dead bodies of infants infanta were picked up on the streets of shanghai last year and the newspapers took slight notice of the fact because it was considered too commonplace mon place to have news value it happens every year in tills this great chinese city and although the exact number of little victims tins has varied it has always been in the tens tells of thousands A similar infant mortality tins haa been found throughout most of china according to the peoples tribune of shanghai which claimed that deaths of newborn new born children have been estimated to run into the millions annu annually aly tho the great bulk of these babies according to tills this organ ot of the or nationalist party representing the chinese national government were exposed to die by parents unable to provide for them birth control has been opposed by certain scholarly elements in china the Peo peoples tribune noted at the same time as it declared that chinese women of education feel differently ferent ly and resent the attitude of the old fashioned male scholar that women exist merely to bear children and perform domestic service what Is more women physicians and nurses know said tills shanghai review just as intelligent men know that the dead babies found in tile streets of 0 Shan shanghai in 1033 did not represent the total of unwanted babies lint but only the number that survived the terrible attempts tempts nt which ignorant find and poverty stricken chinese motherhood must resort to in lieu lien of other methods of family limitation literary digest |
