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From this table it will be observed that although of the 872
births investigated, the number of insured and uninsured was
almost equal, the proportion of uninsured infants who died was
greater than among the insured.
This is exactly what I should have expected, judging from
the increased care with which the insured are treated.
Infant life insurance may or may not be a good thing. It
certainly will not tend to improve the prospects of living in the
case of any infant insured. But it is not evident that in any
measurable degree, it tends in this district to militate against the
infants' welfare.
I have the greatest pleasure in inserting here the report of
Miss Gaul on the general results of her inquiries into the conditions
of infant rearing.
BIRTH ENQUIRIES, 1904.
Report by Miss Gaul, Lady Health Visitor.
"In making birth enquiries I have found, as a rule, the parents
welcome, rather than resent, any advice offered; and, even in those
cases where at the outset the enquiries have been looked upon