... docility of the workman and his wife (for industry and “discipline” are the leading German virtues) keep down epidemics, the infant mortality in these quarters is very high in most German towns, and the dwellings supplied to the rural labourer are still more ...

... do the best they could for them, but as & nation they were not alive to the awful toll of infantile mortality. The nation must endesvour to save infant life. Innumerable experiments were being made and new methods tested with this view in all the centres ...