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Show PLANS BABY-SAVING CAMPAIGN. Probably the most complete rr-port of what is being done in this country to save babies ever issued by the government is embodied in a 100-page pamphlet by Julia C. Lathrop. chief of children's bureau of the department of labor, iust made public. Two thousand copies of the report are being distributed to health officials offi-cials and organizations interested in baby saving in cities, towns, and villages vil-lages throughout the nation, in order that all may know svhat others are doing. The purpose of the report Is to instruct in-struct baby savers in the most recent methods of baby saving, and the most Important sections are printed in Eng-' iish, ilalian, German. Polish, Yiddish. Slovak and Hungarian. - The report is based on Information furnished Miss Lathrop by the mayors of the inn cities in this country with a population of more than 50.000, and X j- ' 4 N I deals especially with the care of in- 1 f:rt8 in summer. The report will be followed by bulletins issued at Intervals, Inter-vals, telling of the most recent methods of safeguarding children. Miss Lathrop plans to have all cities in the country submit yearly reports ni baby saving work. She will incorporate these reports, in an annual report to be issued by the children's bureau and distributed nationally, in order that all cities may become acquainted with each other. |