A large number of
communities in North Carolina are taking an active interest in the Baby Saving
Campaign, and the State Board of Health is daily called upon for literature,
exhibits, lectures, lantern slides and advice with regards to the methods of
best arousing local interest. North Carolina is asked to reduce its infant
deaths this year by more than 5,000 as the state’s portion of the 100,000
babies which it is hoped with be saved in the United States during the year.
There are born each
year in this country, now, over 2,500,000 babies and statistics show that one
out of every ten of these babies die during their first year of life, between
250,000 and 300,000 each year. It is fully realized by those who are
well-informed on questions relating to public health that at least 50 percent
of these die from preventable diseases. It is to reduce this appalling harvest
of the Grim Reaper among the little ones that the Baby Savings Campaign has
been inaugurated by the Children’s Bureau of the United States Department of
Labor.
Three thousand live
and smiling babies in North Carolina this year, or that many little graves?
Briefly, that is what the campaign in this State means.
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