112 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN OF 

 SEATTLE SHOW GREAT INTEL- 

 LIGENCE AND SEATTLE'S 

 DEATH-RATE IS THE 

 LOWEST. 

 Now, let us examine tlie history of tlie 

 Health Ordinances of the City of Seattle. 

 We find that weekly examinations and is- 

 suing of certificates to prostitutes existed 

 with great strictness in that city for a 

 series of years, until recently, with the re- 

 sult that it drove out all prostitutes from 

 Seattle and the red-light district ceased to 

 exist; that the health of its citizens 

 increased marvelously, and its death rate 

 decreased so that in 1914 it was 8.1 in 

 1,000 (See report of Board of Health and 

 Sanitation, page 4), so that Seattle leads 

 all cities in the United States of over 100,- 

 000 population in its low death rate ; that 

 the Puhlic School children of Seattle lead 

 in intelligence those of any other city in 

 the United States. (See Supt. Maxwell's 

 report, p. 274.) 



The people in Seattle, discovering this, 

 recently passed an ordinance of the strict- 



