BABY FARMING.
-— SIXTEEN MISSING CHILDREN. FRENCH PUBLIC AROUSED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Aug. 15, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 14. The Paris correspondent says that baby farming charges against a Bordeaux doctor, fin which the‘police are trying to trace sixteen missing children, have again rivetted public attention on the abnormal rate of infantile mortality in France. Apparently the doctor made a practice of receiving expectant unmarried mothers whose children, were born secretly. He then undertook supervision of the y. .infants at a price. The newspapers •' draw attention to the surprising fact that in birth rate France exceeds England, but France’s infantile mortality is far higher. They comment on the common practice, particularly among the working classes, of mothers placing babies out to nurse, and the dangeis and mortality resultant from that course. —Times.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 August 1924, Page 9
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