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Show BULLETIN 01 IE VALUE BABIES SACRAMENTO, Dec. t2 The commercial com-mercial value of babies is made the lopie of an article in the bulletin of the state board of health. Issued today. to-day. The article contains an estimate esti-mate which nhows that the average cest of the uphrlnInK of a child from birth 10 211 cnrs is $l,lfn, and average aver-age commercial filuo at the end of that time in $l,Ofto. These figures are based on the net earning of the average aver-age citizen of n'l the gainful occupations occupa-tions In California, as reported In the, Ftate labor commissioner's report for 190S and 199, capitalized nl G per cent Interest As an Investment, It Is estimated that by the age of thirty, the average man U worth $l,Gi0 $4,000 value plus J 12,000 gross earnings earn-ings and has cost $10,1 SO for growth and maintenance, or a net gain of Sod tn thirty year? The average value for all riitens of the United States wns reported by the national conservation commission to be $2.90n. Upon this basis the labor element In professional and indiiHtrlnl activities In this Ptato represents $0, S9.',ooo.noo. or approximately twice the total value ot all other sources of wealth. I'pon this basis, the article ihows, the state Is losing, through precnta-ble precnta-ble deaths, expenditures for Illness ami the like, probably $100,nOu,000 annually. |