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Title: 7,369 Blind Babies
Date: March 3, 1916
Bibliographic Citation: “7,369 Blind Babies.: This Awful Annual Showing Is a Needless Sacrifice.” In: Danbury News-Times (Mar. 3, 1916)
Description: Newspaper article talking about blind babies, as part of the 1916 Baby Week campaign
Text: 7, 369 Blind Babies.:
This Awful Annual Showing is a Needless Sacrifice
The school teachers and children are aiding the Baby Week campaign in this city. Posters have been placed in store windows and are the work of pupils in the seventh and eighth grades of New street school. They are most praiseworthy pieces of handiwork, a credit to the young artists and will go far toward promoting the project locally.

Much interest is manifest in the way the stores are co-operating and in the lectures and talks to be given. All in all Danbury promises to be up in front with the country's large cities and towns in its part in this nation-wide movement to save babies from disease and death.

The campaign press committee also has evidence of the widespread interest taken locally and has received clippings from various sources. In line with the recent statement that the world's lowest infant death rate is found in New Zealand, it has been pointed out that women have voted in that country for nearly a quarter of a century, and that in almost all the countries and provinces which make the best showing in infant life, the women have the ballot. Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of the child welfare bureau in Washington, D. C., says: ``Instead of interfering with child-welfare, woman suffrage leads toward it.'' This but goes to show the influence of this work. Women and men in all walks of life are coming to more and more appreciate the value of infant and child welfare.

It is authoritatively reported that 7, 369 babies are annually born blind and needlessly so. This one item alone should impress the value of a Baby Week campaign.
Subject: Baby Week 1916