Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1910 — Boston Babies Are Born the Luckiegt [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Boston Babies Are Born the Luckiegt

BOSTON. —The baby that is bom in Buenos Ayres has a better chance of living than If it had been born in any other of the world’s large cities. In Amsterdam it would find figures more in its favor; but Amsterdam is not so big a town. » In the United States Boston has been the best place to be bom if you want to stand a good chance of living to be at least a year old. In 30 years Boston has not avenged one death out of five babies born during the year. Back in 1882 it came close to that average when 194 infants less than a year old died in every 1.000. But in 1887 there were less than 190, in 1891 the number went below 180, in 1893 it passed the 170 mark, in 1896 the 160 mark, in 1898 the 160 mark, and in 1909 it sank abruptly to 116 per 1,000. “New York is making a record' it

may well be proud of,** says the American Baby, “although its starting point in 1900 was at 203. Com. pare with that the record for 1908, 144, and bear to the babies the message of hope. Philadelphia began in 1900 with 173, diminishing this by 1907 to 169. And western cities, too; St. Louis is very low* and Chicago, admitting herself to be high, is-prom-ising Important reductions. In England, as a whole, with Wales included, the infantile mortality rate was 166 per 1,000 births in 1900; that of London, 164; in Scotland the rate ran about 160, arid In Ireland a little higher. In the fame year in Boston it was 147. In all there are sensible and important gains for the baby. “In Germany Berlin is down from 220 deaths per 1,000 births in 1899 to 112 In 1907. Vienna from 196 to 144. Budapest from 167 to 166, Cologne from 261 to 195, while in Russia, Moscow has declined in the sime years from 319 t 6 266. In Frenchspeaking countries the news for the bahy is most excellent, for Paris In 1899 was really leading, the .world at only 110, and by 1907 had decreased to 104, with Nice a close second at 118 to 105.