Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1915 — LET ANOTHER BABY DIE [ARTICLE]

LET ANOTHER BABY DIE

Deformed and Paralyzed Infant .Succumbs in New York Hospital.

New York, Dec, 3.—Margaret Roberts, the deformed and paralyzed baby whose birth caused a discussion here similar to th a{ over the defective baby allowed to die recently in Chicago, died in the Rabies’ hospital. No operation was performed. The jjnfant was horn November 23. Its lower limbs were paralyzed and its feet deformed, hut its mental condition was thought to be normal. Dr. Maurice Rosenberg, tho physician who attended Mrs. Roberts, asserted after the child's birth that a simple operation could save Its life and mentality, although it would be a life-long cripple. A board of physicians decided against the operation.