Newark post., 1915-02-17
WHY CHILDREN DIE RAPIDLY
Bu 0. R. W0shbltrn


There has been recently issued by United States Gov
report the Children Bureau T. S. Department
of Labor on Infant Mortality 1t is to be obtained by any
who will write that department and ask for it. addressing it
at Washington The report is the result of the abors of de-
parment officials The people of Delaware should give atten
on to the facts the tendency in the state strongly
toward reaction and the continuous ntensyng Of the cond
ions which considered in the pamphlet.
The investigators chose Jonnstown Pennsy vania,
city They went there and had personal interview
with every in the city who had borne child during
the year 1911 They finished their work few months ago
and the printed result has just appeared.
Ignoring the fractions the number of deaths per thou
sand during the first year. of all babies born in wedock is
13O But in the class where the father dollars
week less 255 out of thousand died the first year That
IS to that in the homes of the getting ten dollars
week less there is 25 dead babies of each thou
sand though they had income In the homes of
men getting twenty-five dollars week the number of
children out of each thousand that born who die while
less than year old only S4 Between the death of the
tendoasa-week people and the death rate of the twenty
hve-a WeekormOre people, there difference of III out
OF each thousand born The underpad therefore, not only
give to their employers and society their labor return for
their wages but put III out OF each thousand OF their child
into collins III order to continue in that of
ment which urged them by the lords temporal and the
lords spiritual The report does not speak Of the classical
course or OF the present profit taking system remedy for
this state of things but the report does speak of remedies
at ALL of the Mysterious Providence which is often
referred to at funerals of children who have died result
of the system which puts millions into the hands of few
while the workers live in conditions which kill their little
ones.
The report shows that the mothers the homes of men
receiving less than $5 week frequently become wage
ers to help out the family income They rarely do so the
who do not thus become while bearing child
1T in each thousand born die the first year. Of the child
born to wageeang mothers out Of each thousand 1873
die That that earning by mothers kills seventy
children out of each thousand born them about
in fourteen
1t may be urged that the poor the mothers of these dead
children ignorant that they live in dirt and with wrong
food and food They in many ignorant and
they do live But they do not live in dirty tenements
where the damp Stays them and the winter chls hem be-
they prefer but because that the best they get
Their ignorance is measured by their past and present
to large degree. Education is general among the
children Of the well paid classes and usually lacking among
the victims of extreme poverty the world The sign
cant thing for the public consider is that while radical
ism unpopular and the established order of proang is
defended by the general voice of profit takers and church
leaders, the people die for lack of of proper
life and live in ignorance that justice incomes would
abolish rapidly.
We send, a nation, missionaries to Ceylon but the
the deah-rae of children during the first year in that
heather land in 1910 only 176 of thousand while in
Johnstown in this Christian land of ours class of wom
en- whose husbands earned less than ten dollars lost
255 In other words that land where every prospect peass
and only is vile had sevenynine babies to the
thousand live to the end of the first year than did the women
whose husbands earning low amidst the churches
of that Pennsylvania city