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Show AMERICA S BABY CROP IS RECORD Infant Mortality Rate Is Falling. Fall-ing. Saving 12,000 Over 1918 Rate NEW YORK -fpt 28 America's baby nop in Pip) was a new record - the American bild Hygiene association. An annual preliminary report on viLa! BtatlstiCS by' t ha organization, covering data from 16'. cities with an aggregate population of 31, J.hoo SDOWa the miant mortality rate declined de-clined to the "encouraging" figure ot eigliiy-sp n deaths per ltmfi babies a saving Oi nearly 12,000 babies over ilu 1 9 1 s rate and 7,000 tewer deaths ihan iii 1917. In the cities covered by the report re-port 680,000 births were recorded, while m the entlge countrjj It is cs-1, cs-1, mated there ,nr ,3iiu.imiu new com era annuall n ol the .iues in-cluded in-cluded have populations ol 10,000 or more, Babies seemed to thrive well in sonw of the larger cities, where formerly for-merly the death rate was veiy hi ;h Among the twenty four Cities Of moie than 25 population reported ten were below the average for the 269 and the death rate for the gioup was 85, two points below the general av erage. "Ten veal's ago," the report said, it was the aim of many a depart ment of heallh to see this rate fall below the 100 mark. In 1 Ml 9. only-four only-four of. Hie twenty-four larger cities . . v I e a uu v e u . One of these was Pittsburg, the ! Smoky City." whore ihe rate was '115 Buffalo, with lu7; Kansas City, ! Mo .wilh 103, and Jersey City, N. J., with 102. were the others. Houston, Tex , was the best baby-1 baby-1 raising ground among the citita of j more than 100,000 and less than 250, j 000, with a mark of 61. Berkeley . Cal., had a baby mortality oi it, while Brookllne, Mass. with a pop illation of less than 50,000 led all the i rest with a healthy- percentage of 4J9. New York City registered 82 St. Louis scored 75, Los Angeles and San ECranciSCO 07 and 65. respectively, i Minneapolis 61 and Seattle 54. VA Paso. Tex., had ihe worst showing show-ing with 245 Burlington, Vt . was I next with 15n El Paso, however, is not in a birth registration area, ac-Icordiug ac-Icordiug io the report. |