INFANT MORTALITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81914, 7 January 1907, Page 4

INFANT MORTALITY.

OUINKINtI YVIVKS AND iIETTJNi: HUSUAXIM. Loudon, November •£!. Mr Jol 'l Burns announced mi Thursday that he was drafting a ill '. to legalise municipal expenditure on sterilised milk to check infant mortality. A deputation from the National Conference on that subject was received by the Premier and him. The former said they could hardly look the world in the lace after recognising that 120,001) babies died last year in England and Wales. That meant a deterioration 'of the race; even the fittest were made unfit. We should see that the children were '-well-born in the naturn'l sense of the words—that the mothers had good air, good water, good housing, ease, and a certain amount of leisure and all tue conditions that gave comfort and health; and then that the child should be well nourished and dealt with from UiC , , ; i "- | , il -f »''»'"'"t- The Woven.nient. had then- head, pretty fnll, ,„„ I tinnitus ',1,,t ~, (,ue>li„„ 0 f „„]),;,... J » 'KMition to i,;, «„„„,,„,,:,„„;„ Mr Burns said that he would b- f„hi' to the position he occupied if 1.-'dii. not tell both working men and working women that, if they wanted to have healthy children, the less thev spent—the wives on drink and tl'e husbandu on gambli,ig_the better and the more they would help the local authorities. '