Show CHICAGO BABY LIST DECLINES City Short Young Ones Welfare Society Officer Declares cI CHIC GO Oct 13 A With fM-With rt nUl a steadily declinIng birth rate ralO Chi Chi- Chicago cago Is short babies b bics duro 19 1916 I It 6 according to statistics statistic issued by the th Infant Welfare society ot of ChIcago ChIcagon In n 1916 when hen the populatIon peculation or of orthe the lee city Ily Ity was 2 ll St 56 41 bl babies ba babies bies bles were born In 1922 1912 when the population figure was as placed at t 2 only babies ore nore horn The rate rale during those arl d fallen from 2 22 4 a ft thou thousand to 21 lQ 0 Oi 02 Using lh's these fIgures S I aSa asA a basis Olio Jo 1 1 King extension of or the tue Infant Ve fa e declared that Chicago Is short hort 6 f 47 b The tailing falling of or the tho th birth rate saId Ir Mr J MIng King Is is fOI driving home to th the hi public spirited r Chicago the Inere necessity f r guarding cu the thi human that thatis thatIs Is gh gien en us ch car etar e en e en morA than in the th past It i-i i I all 1111 the tile more important tint Ihil wel we l ert esery e ery possible means mean to pro pre pre erse p the Hie Infant uses ll es in com com- com community when hen we ise belle e and with Ith oo good l I eason cason that the tir birth Irth rate will continue to dron as cia It has inee S Statistics of ot the Iho society show sho hat liat last year when alen It cared for tor ap- ap ap lo 12 babies an n ac ac- ac ac tush Jg Ia sa l lc of cawa I cs was credited to 10 the because the death rate among ong babies under two scars ears or of orage age cared fO for tor at these stations lations w as only 14 H a II thousand wIllie while through through- throughout out out the th dt illy It was foul foul- times as s great creat |