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Australia it has been found that the best preventions 

 of infant mortality in the present circumstances are : 

 Placing the children in homes, as far as possible 

 one in each home. No institutional life for babies, 

 especially when not in good health. Close super- 

 vision by qualified inspectors under an authority with 

 ample powers in order to enforce the best attainable 

 treatment of the children by mothers and other 

 relatives. Breast feeding where possible, and if not, 

 feeding according to wise regulations. Supervision 

 continued until seven years of age. Assistance for 

 mothers to secure payment from the fathers. 



This paper and appendices are sent in the hope 

 that they may be of some slight use to the Conference. 



By direction of the State Children's Council of 

 South Australia. 



APPENDICES. 



(These may be consulted at the Offices of the National 

 Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 4, Tavistock 

 Square, London, W.C.) 



" Interstate Congress of Workers," Adelaide: 

 May, 1909. 



Pamphlet " State Children's Council Administra- 

 tion." 



" State Children Convention," Adelaide : Novem- 

 ber, 1907. 



" Feeding Regulations, &c., in connection with 

 Licensed and Unlicensed Foster-mothers." 



<: State Children in Australia: a History of 

 Boarding out and its Developments/' by Catherine 

 Helen Spence. 



Copies of "State Children Acts" from 1895-1910. 



