Human Physiology. 2f 



see their little sons and daughters thrive on the food for the 

 want of which other children perish." 



Three-fourths of the illegitimate children born in the United 

 Kingdom die during their infancy die in workhouses, or in 

 the hands of paid nurses paid, in many cases, to allow the 

 child to perish of neglect, or be drugged into unconsciousness 

 and death. The mere deprivation of a mother's love and care 

 has much to do with the feebleness and death of a child; and 

 unmarried mothers are often tempted to become wet-nurses in 

 the families of ladies who do not hesitate to advertise their 

 preference for those who have become qualified without the 

 encumbrance of a husband. 



The practice of putting children out to nurse, that their 

 mothers may be left free, has been shown to be itself a mode 

 of infanticide, as practised in Paris, and investigated by a 

 Committee of the Academy of Medicine. "I have seen," said 

 M. Chevalier, addressing the Academy, " one woman under- 

 take to nurse seven infants, who had neither milk herself nor 

 the means of procuring cow's milk." Badly fed and badly 

 cared for, the mortality amongst the wretched children is 

 frightful. Out of 20,000 babies who are annually sent out of 

 Paris en nourrice not more than 5000 survive; 15,000 die of: 

 cold, hunger, and neglect. 



Even in the large American cities children perish by thou- 

 sands, and multitudes are not permitted to be born alive. 



When we think that vast regions of the earth are lying 

 waste that there is room and food for a hundred times its 

 present population that every healthy, well-trained human 

 being may be of priceless value to the rest, such waste of 

 human life should fill us with horror. 



