Manti Messenger | 1925-07-17 | Page 8 | Lives Lost through Ignorance

LIVES LOST THROUGH IGNORANCE S Each year more than two million babies are born in in this country Upon their feet the thc nation must march forward The lives of two hundred thousand babies are lost every year largely through ignorance and lack of protective measures Five other countries take better care of their babies than we ve do Where New Zealand loses only two forty-two out of every thousand babies born and Norway two sixty-two we ve lose seventy One out of every thirteen babies born in this countr country fails to reach its first birthday And in the waste of our motherhood we have an even more serious accusation to face Sixteen other countries have reduced their maternal mortality lower than we have In this country between sixteen and twenty thousand women die in childbirth each Year y year ar One out of every one hundred and five eighty confinements con con- ends in death With care most of these deaths could be avoided The n neglect of prenatal and natal attention for mothers is closely related to the loss of the hundred thousand babies who die in the first month of life