Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1906 — Prizes to Reduce Death Rate. [ARTICLE]

Prizes to Reduce Death Rate.

Mayor Broadbent of Huddersfield, England, who took office two years ago, offered to give parents living in a certain district of the city $5 for every child bom during his term of office and which lived to the age of one year. The result of the experiment has just teen announced on the second anniversary of its inauguration. In the experimental area the death rate of infants had averaged 122 per 1,000 for the preceding ten years. During the past two years the conditions were unfortunate, owipg to an epidemic of whooping cough and measles. Notwithstanding, 105 babies have received the prize offered by the Mayor. The average mortality was 44 per 1,000, cr a decrease of over half.