Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — Why More Boy Babies Die. [ARTICLE]

Why More Boy Babies Die.

Dr. Francis Warner, senior physician of the London hospital, has drawn attention to a curions sex problem. Taking the births of 1905, he showed that 57 per cent were boys, yet the death rate of boys was so mnch higher than that of girls that of 5-yea r-010 children only 43 per cent were boys. Further statistics showed that 27 per cent of boys, as compared with only 22 per cent of girls, died In the first year. I)r. Warner attributed the preponderance of females in England, despite th«rmore numerous birth of boys, to the fact that a much larger proportion of males had the same physical defect. A minute examination of thousands of children showed that 9 per cent of boys were physically defective, as compared with 7 per cent of girls, but taking the children’s medical wards, where practically all were physically defective, the mortality of defective girls was higher than that of the boys. Hence he deduced that while the female sex apparently approaches closer to normality than the male, yet when normalities are found equally in both, the girls have less vitality, a fact which causes a more rapid breakdown under an added strain. It was also noted that while the male sex supplied a great majority of criminals, yet In murders complicated >arifh lunacy women were la a great majority.

John E. Redmond, chairman of the Irish parliamentary i«rty. and William O’Brien, nationalist member of tbe parliament for Cork, are unable to reach an agreement for summoning a national convention on a new baai# of representation, according to a cable from Dublin. Ireland. Clarence Darrow baa ao far recore red from his illness that be has been able to more from tbe California hospital in Los Angeles to private apartments. It is believed that all ncceasitj of an operation baa passed. "* ~ 9 • v . v