Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — Boys Weaker Than Girls. [ARTICLE]

Boys Weaker Than Girls.

In view of the number of men killed by the war, the result of a study now being made by an English physician is rather pessimistic as regards the future masculine supremacy of< the race. For a period covering nearly five years his study indicates that the mortality of boys under a year of age has been from 123 to 125, as compared with 100 for girl babies. Nothwitlistanding. the fact that at birth boys have the advantage of four to five ounces of weight over the average girl baby, they have less resistant power and are therefore less able to throw off disease. The reports upon babies born since the war ace incomplete, but they indicate that while the number of boys born* is considerably in excess of the girls, the number who survive their first year is so much less that there is no hope of the men of the next generation equaling the number of women.