Errors of diet and dress; overfatigue: premature work; insufficient 

 opportunities for the exercise of latent powers: bad examples; unhealthy 

 surroundings: and this creature, so full of possibilities for good, may have 

 them warped, checked, destroyed: with the result that, instead of being a 

 blessing to the world, the baby may only too easily become a burden. How 

 many children attain maturity in full possession of their birthright of health 

 and of intellectual and moral ability? 



SOME STATISTICS OF INFANT MORTALITY. 



It is calculated that, after allowing for all causes, it may he fairly 

 expected that, of every thousand infants born, ninety will die before they 

 see their first birthday. 



How is it then, that in Ottawa W> babies out of every thousand born are 

 allowed to die before they have lived a year'.' Why is it that at Port Arthur 

 "4-> infants die of every thousand born before they are twelve months old? 

 It has been said by an expert on the subject that such carelessness is a sign 

 of degradation and degeneration. 



Krcl angular Tent. ( Hebrew. I 



Xo one concerned in the care of child life and who of us is not? can 

 afford to forget that the longer the period of immaturity, the greater the 

 promise for the future; but. also, the greater the need for and dependence 

 upon judicious care; so again we come back to our subject the purpose of 

 family life. 



FAMILY HOMES IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. 



Most probably the earliest homes of human beings were no better than 

 those of many animals. It is believed that the savage man of long ago took 

 shelter within a hollow tree or beneath some overhanging cliff, until it occurred 

 to him to bend the young boughs and weave them roughly into a sort of hut, 

 or to pile up the rocks around him until he formed a rude shelter from the 

 wind and rain.* 



Thin Intpreetlng scries of sketches of the homes of mankind in the past is repro- 

 duced, by the kind permission of the author, from " Public Health and Architecture," 

 by .John K. .!. Sykes, M.1>., I>.Sc., Medical Ollieer of Health. St. Pnnrras. London, 

 loigland. 



