Italy, 44.5%. ' ' " 



Austria, 46.8%. ' 



■ Spain, 50.0% . ' . 



Chinai — In a Gertain annual report the Health Officer 



for Hong Kong showed that only 72 out of 1,000 lived to be 



a .year old. 



Collected and tabulated information has been received 

 from some 28 cities in the U. S. A., in which are located 

 these depots, and appear in concise form in No. 50 

 U. S. Government report. In the majority of these 

 definite educational measures are carried out by means of 

 literature, public lectures, addresses in churches, consulta- 

 tions at thci dispensaries., and in addition to' this there is 

 the dissemination of information regarding infant hygiene 

 by the house to house visitation of nurses. Some effort is 

 made by the proper instructions of the mother to induce 

 her to suckle her own child. Of these depots some sell 

 the milk at a low price, others .sell and give to those un- 

 able tO' pay. On the whole it is clearly a better policy to 

 make some charge, thereby removing the element of charity 

 and enabling the agency to do a greater w-ork. 



The majority carry on this work winter and summer 

 alike. In nearly all a; large percentage of children are ill 

 when first applying for milk. 



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