Sentence:  I understand that the mothers often would be willing to rear their daughters; but the fathers, who have supreme control in their families, insist upon getting rid of useless mouths and choke their infant babes to death, the mothers readily acquiescing. Equeesik, one of our hunters on the sledge journey, who is himself a Netchillik, denies this charge of female <WSD>Herodism</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The killing of unwanted people, especially children.