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Title: Mother and child
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Whipple, Guy M. Provision for the education of gifted children in the United States American Child Health Association American Child Hygiene Association National Child Health Council (U.S.). Child health in Erie County, New York
Subjects: Child health services Child welfare Children Maternal health services Mothers Child Health Services Child Welfare Maternal Health Services
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : American Child Hygiene Association
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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nsiderable as-sistance to the various states in framing legislation which shallsupplant the existing archaic stat-utes. In place of the present in-adequate protection and care aug-menting the handicaps of the child,it is of increasing importance thateach state should insure justice byincorporating into the laws thebasic principles necessary to securea nigher standard of treatment andassure to the child born out of wed-lock adequate care and support. Life and Death Records THE birth registration area in-cludes those states in whichnine out of every ten births are re-corded. Those states having fewerthan this are here shown in black.They cannot learn what proportionof babies born alive live to be oneyear of age. Unless this proportion is known no accurate measure ispossible of the dangers whichthreaten child life. Every citizenshould know whether his or herstate is one of the twenty-three inwhich, where the number of birthsis known, or one of the twenty-fivein black where it is unknown.
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BIRTH REGISTRATION AREA: 1920 S2 LIFE AND DEATH RECORDS Twenty other states have good the comparative studies furnished registration laws but the citizens do by the Census Bureau, not register all births. The following cities show how A striking example of the worth many babies died under one year of birth registration is shown in of age—per looo born alive: A SAMPLE PAGE OF HUMAN BOOKKEEPING CITY Infant Mortality Rates Infant Mortality Ratesof 1919 and 1915compared 1919 1918 1917 1916 1915 Increase Per Cent or Increase + orDecrease Decrease — New York 8i 92 89 93 9991 124 108 105 104 95 98 109 * 115 99 105 10398 149 118 122 96 100 103 112 105114 139 120 115 nono 121 104 114 108loi 106 100 85 112 97 106 III 88 104 88 65 73 71 62 71 _i8 —18.2 Philadelphia — 13 —12.5 — 14 — 12.8 Cleveland Boston Baltimore — 24 —19.7 — 9 — 8.6 + 4 +3.6+ 2 +1.9+ 1 +1.0 — 26 — 23.4 Detroit Pittsburgh Buffalo Milwaukee Washington Cincinnati...., Minneapolis - 6 - 8.5 . * Copies of

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