Show INFANT MORTALITY IS LOWER efforts of health officials official during lat last FI five ve years have drought brought down death list in cities what tho the american cities are doing and can do toward preventing in faint mortality and the high death rato rate ot of children under live five years yearn of ago age la Is the subject of a issued by the childrens bureau ot of the de part apartment ment of labor it la is the purpose of the bureau to issue a similar bulletin annually and in time to make it a complete manual tor for municipal att and 1 philanthropic activities in tho the direction ot of child welfare summer campaigns tor for bables babies lives have been waged with such auch marvelously good effect in some cities that it seems to the bureau important to enlist the energies ener of as many cities in ili this thin work as possible to this end it will bo be helpful to collect and present tor for tho the information ot of all tho the little or much that to lo being done by the various cities the th efforts ot of city health officials have resulted in the last ton ten yew years in reducing the general genera death raae in cities below that ot of the rural dla die tracts and villages this reduction to in the fineral death rate Is an encouraging liadi cation of what la Is possible ot of accomplishment in efforts to r reduce educe the infant death rate babies die of i diseases which to a large extent are prey preventable eatable and thus thua when welfare are work to Is directed toward saving their lives the tha reopen re spona lit la immediate and deol decided ded |