OCR Text |
Show NQUIRY INTO . INFANT'S DEATH j Aurora. Ill, Nov 14 The govern-j ment of the United States has taken up the challenge of Newsholme, an1 English statistician, that 300,000 Am erican babies under one year old who dio annuallv should live. Miss Julia Lathrop. director of the children r ( department of the department a' commerco and laboi told of the plans in an address last nipht before the convention of the Illinois Federation of Woman's clubs Tho children's bureau has begun a sweeping Inquiry into the reasons why these children die," Miss Lathrop said "'One noteworthy feature of this Inquiry Is that we arc going to the birth, not the death records "Our own most eminent authorities tell us that half of the 300,000 children chil-dren under one year old who die an-nuall an-nuall can be saved by tho application applica-tion of methods we already know about "Now is it not better to begin the inquiry into tho case of this needless loss of children's lives bv urging upon our people to give to births of the young just as much dignltj and care as to the marriage of parents'' "We want people to understand that to preservo the nation they must first save the lives of its most precious assots Its babies " |