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Show If' HEALTHFUL AND CLEAN ! IS OGDEN. Ogden never received better ad-i ad-i vertlsing than the 'following which appeared ap-peared in the last issue of the Youth's i. ' Companion: The City Baby's Chances. : "No community that has an Infant mortality rate of more than 50 can maintain that its "babies are getting get-ting anything like a square deal." That is tho statement of the Now York Milk Committee. It moans, of course, an annual death rate of 50 in every 1000. The committee commit-tee has prepared a statistical bulletin bul-letin that shows the infant mortality mor-tality rates In 144 American cities. According to the 'figures, only four of the cities are giving tho bablds I "a square deal." They are La Crosse, Wisconsin (30.6); Ogden, Utah (39.8) ; Omaha, Nebraska (47.1) ; and East Orange, New Jer-; Jer-; sey (48.8). Some of the cities with the highest infant death $ rates are Passaic, New Jersey L (193.5; Montgomery, Alabama (185.1); and Nashville, Tennes- f see (1S2.3). No city with a popu- I lation of 200,000 or over has an infant death rate so high as those S just given, nor, on the other hand, r has any of them a rate below 50. E- The lowest rates among cities of F . that size are those of Seattle, Washington (53.1), and Portland, ! Oregon (57.7). The highest are those of Jersey City (132.9) and : Indianapolis (131.6). In comment ing on the figures, tho Journal of tho American Medical Association says that the condition that cause those high rates may be remedied by any community that is determined deter-mined not to tolerate such a waste !' of infant life. If only six babies in the Eorough of Manhattan were V. , to be killed or even threatened with death by a bomb from an aeroplane, the country would be aflame with indignation. An ob-- ob-- server from Mars might find the h-" fact curious when contrasted with f-S ; the calm unconcern with which ., we regard conditions that doom ,' thousands of infants in this coun- Be$ i try to death. Hp? The Youth's Companion is a period!- Kg ' ' ' cal of wide circulation, entering the Kpj ! best homes of the land. To have that E$ j publication proclaim the fact that Ogden is one of four cities in the G&A United States giving the babies "a Egja square deal" is publicity almost cer ate tain to emphasize that Ogden as a home city has no superiority, tjfcj'-l What Is good for the babies must be w& conducive to the health of the grown ups. So Ogden has a right to claim to bo one of the most healthful cities in the United States. To rank as ono of four oltlcs In -life-preserving forcos Is to gain a distinction much greater than to be rated as tho cleanost of cities, because to bo thoroughly healthful, health-ful, a city must be clean, not only to the eyes of an inspector, but pure in even' hidden recess; must bo clean, not only outwardly, but inwardly. On tho back of the hundreds of thousands of letters which go out of Ogden each month should bo this slogan; "Ogden, a city where even tho babies get a square deal; one of four cities in tho United States where infant in-fant mortality is not excessive!" |
