Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1880 — Infanticide in the East Indies. [ARTICLE]

Infanticide in the East Indies.

Infanticide was terribly common in the northwest provinces of India during the year 1878 ’7O. The Inspector General of Police reports that no less than 26 per cent, of the female children bor-n were killed. Among the poorer people a higher value i# placed on the boys; and. therefore, when food is insufflcUn* for ail, the gie 1 * suffer most.