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Show Hundred Thousand Young Lives Saved From Sacrifice to Infantile Diseases. WASHINGTON. Jan. 24. America's first anniversary in tho great war will bo made the inauguration date of "Children's year," under plans announced an-nounced today by the Children's bureau bur-eau for tho saving of 100,000 lives ordinarily or-dinarily sacrificed to infant diseases. A nation-wide weighing and measurement measure-ment of babies and children of pro-school pro-school age will begin April 6 to be followed fol-lowed up by an educational campaign, which It Is hoped will diminish at least one-third 4ho annual total of 300,000 preventable deaths of children child-ren under 6 years of age. Tho physical examinations will be the most comprehensive stock taking of human resources ever attempted fof tho purpose of conserving human life. Co-operation in tho work has been promised by the women's committee of the council of national defense, headed by Dr. Anna Shaw and by the various state councils and womens organizations. or-ganizations. Many Defects Can Be Cured. Army examinations have revealed that physical defects to a large extent aro attributable to ailments which might have been cured in infancy. In this tlmo of war, when wastage of men in battle requires the safeguarding of the reserve supply at home, tho bureau bur-eau announced that the plans worked out for registering the weight and height of three million infants will afford af-ford a fair standard on which to judge how tho American reserve compares with that of other belligerent coun- tries. The children's bureau will provide a record card which will bo arranged in duplicate so that one-half can be sent In to tho bureau and one-half kept by tho parents. The record will bo filled out by trained physicians and nurses in many places, but parents can secure cards and make the record themselves. |