per 1,000 births, in the first year of life, has steadily declined since a determined campaign to "Save the Babies" was started:
| 1902 | 181 |
|---|---|
| 1903 | 152 |
| 1904 | 162 |
| 1905 | 159 |
| 1906 | 153 |
| 1907 | 144 |
| 1908 | 128 |
| 1909 | 129 |
| 1910 | 125 |
| 1911 | 112 |
| 1912 | 105 |
| 1913 | 102 |
| 1914 | 95 |
To one who can not see beyond the immediate consequences of an action, such figures as the above indeed give quite a different idea of the effects of an infant mortality campaign, than that which we have just tried to create. And it is a great misfortune that euthenics so often fails to look beyond the immediate effect, fails to see what may happen next year, or 10 years from now, or in the next generation.
We admit that it is possible to keep a lot of children alive who would otherwise have died in the first few months of life. It is being done, as the New York figures, and pages of others that could be