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pose of attacking these problems. I am not one who believes 

 that no progress is being made in the reduction of infant mor- 

 tality. No careful student of the statistics of infant mortality 

 can, I believe, reach any other conclusion than that a steady 

 reduction is being effected ; but only a beginning has been 

 made. We do not wish to be understood as discouraging the 

 efforts made by any organization to save infant life in any one 

 of the innumerable ways in which this may be possible; all 

 these organizations are needed and many more will be required 

 before the result is reached. We do wish to emphasize the fact 

 that all those who are working should have some knowledge 

 of the problem as a whole so that the work of each separate 

 organization may fit into a comprehensive scheme for the solution 

 of this great problem. 



