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confinement ; 43.4 of those mothers give birth to still born babies, their 

 babies are dead before they are born; 35.2 of those mothers lose their 

 live born babies through death during the first month of birth. Ignoring 

 the fact that five of the mothers die and take your potential baby lives 

 from conception until one month after birth and you divide them into 

 three groups of those who die ; one-third are born dead ; the second third 

 die during the first month after birth, and the last third die during the 

 remaining eleven months of the first year. Two-thirds of those potential 

 lives are gone before there is any possible chance of them availing them- 

 selves of the milk station machinery. That is for New York City. 



Mr. Pierce: That is, two-thirds of those who die? 

 The Witness: Yes. 



Q. Then in our figures that we have been considering on infant 

 mortality which has been the cause for this milk agitation, two-thirds of 

 the children who die have no relation at all to the milk agitation ? 



A. Not in the least. 



Q. They die before the end of the first month? 



A. They do. 



Q. Then, only one-third of the number of children that have been 

 quoted so often as the reason for the milk agitation really have anything 

 to do with the milk supply? 



A. Just one-third, yes. 



Q. Now, have you some more figures on that point? 



A. I have the same figures for the City of Rochester that I have 

 just quoted for New York City. This is from the vital statistics of 

 Rochester for 1917: Out of one thousand expectant mothers in Roch- 

 ester that year, 4.6 died from causes due to pregnancy and confinement : 

 39.0 gave birth to dead babies ; 40.9 lost their babies through death during 

 the first month after birth. You have the grouping in three groups, the 

 same here as in New York City. In New York City the line goes down 

 gradually from the second month down ; in Rochester it does not do that ; 

 the second month is lower than the third month, and the fourth month is 

 lower than the third or fifth month; this is pro-rated from the sixth 

 month on, because my figures do not have the exact distribution, but it 

 shows graphically what the situation is. 



Q. That is to say, in Rochester one- third of the babies who die 

 under one year of age are babies who would be affected by the milk 

 supply ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. And two-thirds are not affected? 

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A. Are not affected. 



A. The problem, then, in infant mortality does not concern itself 



