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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14049, 20 July 1916, Page 4

In an artiole. , in,, the Century— "The 'Hope' of the Future"— Dr. Mary Scharlieb discusses the causes of infantile morality, and makes some very important suggestions. . "During these 20 months," she- writes, "we have lost' more than 100,000 killed, and probably five times that number wounded and siok, many of whom, will not be again efficient for either military or civil employment. These losses are bf young men in the most useful period of life. Under our voluntary ' system i of enlistment it is inevitable 'that the -bravest, : the most adventurous, and the men with! the maximum of insight should offer themselves first.'" The one and only return the nation can make, she says, is to value, to protect, and to save" the children that are left to heir'." Great' and terrible as Qur losses have been iii the .war, they 'are practically equalled in- the yearly loss of infant life. Of the 800,000 babies bom, 100,CC0 do not live to see their first birthday." The commencement of the campaign against infantile mortality must be afYte-ha'fcai. The -war has revcealed to ' women their capacity for • organised work, ' and the emptiness' of a life without work,' 'andj afterthe war this •* grand" work 1 ' of promoting' 'the~' health of Mother's and the welfare of infants and' little children will offer an ample field for the energi.es of women and girls of every class. For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods' Great Poppermint Cure.*