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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18592, 28 June 1922, Page 8

A “WAR" COMPARISON

HOW THE BABIES DIED. Take as an example the two 'cities of Paris and Edinburgh. “When the Germans besieged Paris in 1870, nearly all the infants born died. In 1915, when the German armies again were only sixty miles from Paris, it was decreed that no spirits should bo sold to soldiers, women, or children. A special milk supply wop provided by the military authorities for the mothers and children of Paris. The infant death-rate fell, and the number of still-births fell to the lowest on record. More —the average weight of the infants at birth was the highest on record. In spite of the adverse conditions of war, this time of invasion of Franco proved to be the best on record for fnothorhood and infancy. “In Edinburgh, in the same year, 1915, whore prosperity was extreme and an unprecedented amount of money was available for motherhood, the infant death-rate rose abruptly, and was the highest on record for fifteen years. It. was, in.' fact, higher than in 1885, the first year of which there is any record. Official records point indisputably to maternal spirit-drinking as the cause, and that this factor decided the remarkable contrast between the results in Edinburgh and Paris.” The above is extracted from the N.Z. Education Department’s Special Report No. 13. The Government thinks the children should know this and act upon it. Adults may also take the lesson to heart and vote out the liquor traffic. —N.Z. Alliance Publicity (51).

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