The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1848-01-13

MUkI ALlII AMONC CHILDREN.
Some Of the more fastidious Of our read.
ers appear to take exception 10 tho comm,,.
niculion VIC published las, week, in rcIa.
tinn to mortality in this vicinity, during
1917. |, may be questionable with some
that such publications tend 10 advance the
interests OF place; whether they do OF d.
not, their cnmmonness in entering upon q
new year, would be sufficient to justify the
publication.
In connection with the circumstances Of
an unusually sickly season and the cxag.
geratcd reports ihut in consequence have
spread abroad, il became us as the conduct.
or Of press to make true statement Of
he mortality, and VIC ire obliged To our
friend for his timely md efficient MD
Those persons who objected 10 the article,
TO which those exaggerated statements had
been promulgated. A recent letter from
Cincinnati informs Us, that il was current.
W reported there, that more dc aihs had nc.
Cured in Davenport in proportion 10 the
population, that had taken place IN New
Orleans in time Of the prevalence or The
yellow fever. VIII not The official state
ment convince those Of ,hat city, or else.
where, who take an interest in our wei
fare. TINT the rcpor, was exaggerated?
Tine Chicago papers have published
similar statement, from winch we ascertain
the number oi' deaths during lsi7, to have
been rs follows Adults, 22l, children,
23S, total l59.
Dubuque has been reported unusually
healthy tue past year, yet we learn from
publication in the Catholic paper OF that
CITY. that there were G5 deaths in the
Catholic Church alone.
Of tho l0l who died in this place during
1917, % were Germans, unaccIimatcd.
many Of whom brought, diseases with them
or the % ci,izcns VINO died, more than
one half were children mostly under three
wears Of age.
We were amused nj the reply Of phys-
clan, who in oIjecting - the utility Of our
publication of last wcol. stated, that we
should have given the reason for mortal
iiv SO unusual among orr children. We
inquired Of him wi,a, was the rcason!--
Why, said he. in every ease where phy-
sicisn was employed the Guild died, where
il was lett To the care Of The old women il
invariably recovered!
When VIC view our mortality in connec-
ton with that Of other cities, New York for
instance, VIC will not be surprised n, the
want Of success Of our physicians, nor nj
he grcat disproporlion Of children tina, die
During four weeks Of the month Of July,
| there were SO2 deaths ol children under
four years Of agc in that ciiv--hali rs ma.
ny as the whole number above that age
and the result is tho same in every CITY
,hence 10 81. l.ouis. IN commenting upon
this fact the Piiisburg Gazette SAWS
Mothers and fathers arc responsible Cor
much OF this. Il is the natural order of
things that mulhcrs should nurse their own
children, and The mother who is physically
unable To 90 SD, is as mnch 10 Le comrns-
scratcd for her misfortune, as other mn,l,-
crs arc TO he delestcd, who cruelty neglcc,
he cravings al nature, in refusing 10 sup
ply their own offspring with the lood dc.
signed tor them BY the Givcr Of all good
Have No, physicians also something to nn-
swer for such frigh,iul records rs the abov |?
Nav not morc be known mud done 10 res.
cue these little ones from the grave! A
cold philosophy NAV sch rs that il is bet
ter as it is, and that children are better ms
thcv ere. but let ms not become wiser than
Omnisciencc, by charging upon God the
fruits Of cur own ignorance, neglect and
cruelty.
AMERICAN CHARACTERISTIC or
fifteen years aco six Young men, one bv
one, left their native cnun,y. (Fayeitc, XIV,