Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1915 — Funds for Infant Welfare Work. [ARTICLE]

Funds for Infant Welfare Work.

New York city spends >250,000 annually in infant welfare work. For this purpose the city of Chicago appropriates only >4,000 a year. The claim is made by those who profess to know that if that city were to spend >125,000 a year for this purpose, virtually all of the 7,000 babies who die in Chicago each year might be saved, the money value representing the saving in human. Ilves being estimated at >7,000,000. Private organizations such as the Infant Welfare society of Chicago have shown how baby lives may be saved, but if further progress is to be made, it is.averred, the work must be concentrated in the municipality.