Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1917 — Patriotism and Babies. [ARTICLE]

Patriotism and Babies.

How 1 the strength of the 1 nation is being impaired by the conditions which make babies sicken and die, and what some two thousand .communn.ies have done to awaken- interest in the conservation of the youngest citizens, are briefly reviewed in a new bulletin on Baby Week Campaigns which has just been issued by the Children’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. Approximately one in ten of all the babies born in the United States dies before completing twelve months of life, and the bureau says: , “It was once thought that a high infant death rate indicated a greater degree of vigor in the survivors. Now it is agreed that the conditions which destroy so many of the youngest Hyes of the community must also result in crippling and maiming many others and must react unfavorably upon the health of the entire communityZTZ Two thousand one hundred communities have reported to the Children’s Bureau the details of a Baby Day or a Baby Week by'Avhich they called attention to the need of protecting their babies. Ingenious devices for exhibits, new methods of distributing pamphlets on baby care, ways in which information on. local conditions was secured and published, and other interesting features from these local reports are described in the bulletin as suggestive for those who are planning a similar campaign. The bureau says: “Not all of the 2,100 communities reporting a Baby Week Campaign in 1916 may find it wise to repeat the celebration m 1917, but the United States includes 14,186 incorporated cities, towns and villages,.and it is doubtful if among the thousands which , have never had a Baby Day or Baby Week there is a single town or, village which would not profit from such a campaign.”

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