WHY DO BABIES DIE?
Because one of the |*irents may be weak or diseased, or because the untrorn infant is damaged by poisons etr cuViting in the veins of the mother. Excessive consumption of alcohol damages the health of troth parents, ami acts as a poison to the child. It is the cause of many children dying, or what is worse growing up permanently defective in body and in mind. Want of good mothering and of medical and nursing cure, poverty, vice, ill feeding, insanitay dwellings, overcrowding all these militate against Iho child. Indulgence in alcohol intensifies these dangers therefore drink is justly regat led as a most deadly enemv to infant life. A mother who takes no alcoholic drink before or after the birth of her little one gives the child a surer chance of life and health. A father who. for the sake of wife and child, abstains from alcohol gives both a better chance. Ts it not w’orth while trying to secure this “better chance" for the children of our great country? (The nt>ove Is from a leaflet sent to us by the National Baby Week Council, London.)
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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 369, 18 March 1926, Page 5
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191WHY DO BABIES DIE? White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 369, 18 March 1926, Page 5
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