New York, Dec. 16—the number of deaths each year in the United States of infants less than 1 year old is greater than the total number of soldiers killed in action in all the wars fought in America, Dr. Henry Painter of New York nursery and child’s hospital said today at a medical conference.
Dr. Painter suggested a national movement to alter conditions surrounding birth and infancy in certain sections.
“The business of being a baby is the most hazardous of all occupations,” he declared, adding that the clergyman’s chance of living was 14 times as great as that of the infant; the journalist’s, lawyer’s or teacher’s 12 times, the middle-aged physician’s 10 times, the taxi driver’s nine times and the farmer’s 20 times.
From the front page of the Greensboro Daily News, Dec. 17, 1922
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