BABY FARMING CHARGES
AGAINST A BORDEAUX DOCTOR
SIXTEEN CHILDREN MISSING
(By Eleotrio Telegraph.-Oopyrignt.) (Published in The Times.)
LONDON, Aug. 14 The Times correspondent says baby farming charges against a Bordeaux doctor in 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 the supervision of the infants at a price. Newspapers draw attention to the surprising fact that in the birth rate Franhe exceeds England, but France’s infantile mortality is far higher. They comment on the common practice, particularly among the working class, of mothers placing babies out to nurse and the dangers and mortality resultant from that source.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 15 August 1924, Page 5
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