New Britain herald., 1918-02-25
SAVE BABY IS
 CRY FOR l9I8-l9
Quota for Connecticut During
 Campaign Is 1,056

washington, Feb. 25.-The chill dren's bureau of the U. S. department or labor announced today the num- per of lives each state is asked to save in the campaign to save 100000 oan1es and young children during chlfdren's year beginning April 6. An houhcement of the purpose to wage such a campaign was made some time ago by the children's bureau and the ch1ld-We1fare department of the wOn- ans committee of the council of ma tonal defense, and the response, which has surpassed all expectation, indicates that efforts to promote the health and welfare of children are to be more vigorous this year than ever before.
 The saving of 100000 lives of chiI- dren under five is only one part of the big program for the welfare of 30,- 000,oO0 children under fifteen in the country. It is realized by all con- cerned that the standards of child protection must not be relaxed during war time, and the United States is ex- pected to profit by the experience of other warning countries, where the importance of safeguarding childhood is emphasized as never before
 The campaign to save 100000 lives of babies and young children in the United States during the second year of the war is to be inaugurated by national weighing and measuring test beginning April 6, the anniver- sary of the declaration of war by this country In announcing the quotas the children's bureau said:
 "In order that each state may feel responsible for a definite number of lives to be saved, quotas have been assigned to the various states, the ap- portionment being made on the basis of the population under five according to the 1910 census. This of course cannot take account of varying death
 rates in the different states where death rates are known.
 "In about half the states of the country, comprising nearly one-third the population, the regiStra ton of deaths was not sufficiently complete to warrant their inclusion in the regis tration area when the latest reports were published. The registration of
 births is seriously deficient in still
 larger number of states, For that reason the apportionment of quotas of infant lives to be saved could not be made upon the basis of the in
 
 on the number of deaths under one year and the number of recorded births. Thus the only basis for the assignment of quotas uniformly ap- plicable to all the states is the pOpu- 1ation as shown by the federal census. As the effort for the hundred thou sand lives applies to the specially hazardous period Of life under five years of age the quotas are calculated upon the basis of the population un- der five.
 Tn making the apportionment on this basis it was realized that a high mark is thus set for states in which the death rate among young children is already low. On the other hand, the mark set may be low for some states where the child death rate is excessively high. It does not appear to be possible to avoid some situa- tions of this kind by any method of apportionment that could be devised with the data. now at hand. If the registration of births and deaths were complete in all the states. an appor- tionment of quotas of the 100, ,000 lives to be saved by the various states could be made upon a different basis" ] Plans for the celebration of chill dren's year, of which the saving of l 100000 lives is one feature, are being developed by the children's bureau | in cooperation with the child-wel- 1 fare department of the wOman's com mittee of the council of national de- fense. The safeguarding and pro- lection of children is looked upon as | a patriotic duty in view of the un- avoidable wastage of human life incl | dent to war. It is expected that the 1 5000 or more local committees of l the child welfare department of the woman's committee will be able to carry the campaign to every com munity in the United States This is looked upon as essential to the Suc- cess of the movement, for in the last analysis, every community must save