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Show Baby Death Rate Drops One-Fifth in Five Years Each year about 2,000,000 babies are born in the United States. One fact revealed in a report about them is that during the five years from 1934 to 1939 our baby death rate dropped 20 per cent. Even at that, some 50,000 babies died between the second and twelfth month of their lives and, sad to say, many of them could have been saved. There has been little or no decline in the death rate of babies from one day to one month old, and there are still 75,000 stillbirths every ev-ery year. Under the social security act, approximately ap-proximately 800,000 children benefit from the program giving aid to dependent de-pendent children. Because of the acceptance of responsibility for our children by the government agencies agen-cies during the depression, some 8,000,000 children are at the present time receiving economic aid in their homes. Surgeon-General Thomas F. Par-ran Par-ran of the U. S. public health service, serv-ice, in his report, states: "New horizons are ahead of us in the attainment of national health. New knowledge and surer weapons offer us, as parents, real hope for better health of our children and, as citizens, hope for a strong America." |