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Show BOUNTY PAID FOR EVERY CHILD BORN London. Jan 13. Beginning today every child born In th United King doni to parents Insured under the new national insurance act will bring the parents a bounty of thirty shillings, or about $7.60. Under the new act the mother i3 also entitled to sickness benefit during the period of her 111 ness. There are about 1,200.000 births annually an-nually in the United Kingdom and it Is estimated that fully 1.000.000 of these will be entitled to the Insurance Insur-ance benefit One effect of the scheme-is scheme-is expected to be an Improvement in the national physique, which is said to have suffered considerably because so many mothers are denied necessities, necessi-ties, and are sometimes obliged to re sume work before fully recovered. no |