New Britain herald., 1918-06-29
HYPER BABY CROP [)R 1918 FORECAST
D Rate Among Infants, Mater
 iany Lowered ina1917

pets for an unprecedented crop bies.
 ording to the survey of ,infant lity statistics gleaned from 16s e largest cities of the United for 1917, just completed by lew York milk committee. the death rate of the country has Considerably lowered. And with Sderal government fathering, a to save 100000 babies during cond year of Americas paTticl- in the war it. is expected that htural national increase in pop n during 1918 will surpass the Is of all previous years.
 infant death rate for the 163 above mentioned, all of which populations above 25,000, was In this group there were 723,- wing births. Of these 70,4 under one year. Using these as basis it is estimated that living births in the nation Id 2,67S,0oo. This number sub d. from the total deaths of les (approximsetely 1,64S,o0D a natural increase in Uncle national family. of more than boo.
 e steady fall of the baby death s proof conclusive that organ infant welfare work in many of the country is giving the square deal from the start \ H. Larson, secretary of the ittee. Que to the knowledge is being circulated concerning nefts of prenatal care and the rreasing number of mothers ng this treatment the, increase years baby crop was large e the war and attending hard
 With the government con- B a campaign to save 100, 900 the infant mortality rate for should reveal further de- This is the time when infant e work should be spread every for healthy babies are the means whereby the nation can to preserve it's population in the bf the loss of thousands of
 
 ration"
 ugh there is not much differ mong them analysis of the 163 which have made their infant lity rates public show that those Populations under 50,000 have st environment for children and cath among babies is more rife bse larger cities where poor are more abundant and where conditions, consequently are congested. Cities under 50,000 L7 had a baby death rate of those from 50,0oO to 100000 a # 97.4 and those with popula- above 100000. 9S.2.
 York city, the metropolis of buntry, has reached the lowest death rate in it's history, and hg lower than any other world Although its population has in- d with rapid strides during the decade there were 4,041 less deaths last year than occurred p7. Since then. when the in mortality rate was 1858 there pen 8 constant decrease to 88.8. Fork is now one of the centers enatal treatment treatm ent and ecided drop in the baby mor- rate shows the city to be reap knefits of maternity care which rst introduced there by the New milk committee and which is icing carried on by the Mater Renter association in co-opera- nth the committee and kindred xations.
 honor infant death rate among ties of 100000 or more pre- In Omaha, Nebraska. where ark was 59.2. Close behind was Washington, with rate of Of all the cities in the land klle, Tennessee, with popuIa- 110,364 had the highest rate, ng 100 es the present average death rate of the United States ound that of the 43 cities of population who reported IS Doye this figure and 25 below eighteen cities whose rates are the century total, given in the of their size are Chicago 106.4 elphia, HOO; Cleveland, 104.9; lore, 119.3; Pittsburgh, 116.2; t, 1O3.6; Buffalo, 1o3.7; New Is 113.5: Jersey City, 113.3; file, 110.5; Syracuse, 101.9; ngham, 147.5; Memphis, 145.7; ond, 1S4.5; Fall River, 153.s; Rapids. 134.9; Nashville, 1S21 lbany 1882.
 re are five honor roll cities boast infant death rates below hose cities are all of the class 50, 900. Two of them are ir mia, two in Massachusetts ano her in Wisconsin, as follows ey, Cal, population 40,4so, rate Everett, Mass, population, 33,, lte 455; La Crosse, Wis, popu- 30,417, rate APP; Brookline
 population 27,792, rate 412; da, Cal, population 23,3S3, rate e 1912 when the New York committee commenced it's ex- Ents with prenatal care in this Ill., births have been reduced 2z mt, deaths under one month o1
 per cent and material deaths
 cent below rates for the citN