UNWANTED BABIES.
SHANGHAI'S AWFUL TOLL
The bodies of 34,818 children were picked up in the streets and- alleyways of Shanghai last year, according to the report of the Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery, a Chinese charitable organisation . which collects and buries unclaimed bodies. During the year the collectors removtJ 36,130 bodies, but by far the largest proportion consisted of the abandoned bodies of infants ,and young children cast away by their parents after death. Infant mortality is appallingly high in Shanghai, and little care is exercised in .the disposal of the remains, through extreme poverty preventing the purchase of coffins, or through callousness.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 156, 4 July 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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