According to this table the superiority which children in indigent households show over children in well-to-do households is preeminent skill in dying. When father earns $12 a week the children die at the rate of 213 per 1,000; but when father earns $18 a week, only 96 children per 1,000 pass away the first year of their lives. The lower the father’s wages, the higher the babies’ death rate. Many a death certificate should read, “Died of poverty.” The following table is compiled from the 5,617 children borne by 1,491 married mothers, in Johnstown, Pa. Order of Birth Deaths per 1,000 1st and 2nd born children 138.3 3rd and 4th born children 143.2 5th and 6th born children 177.0 7th and 8th born children 181.5 9th and later born children 201.1 Apparently the size of the family has much to do with the child’s chance of living, and apparently the earlier in the succession the child is born, the better chance of life it possesses. Death warrants await the coming of the youngest born. Table 42.—Infant mortality rate for all children of married mothers included in this investigation, distributed according to the father’s earnings. Father’s annual earnings Infant mortality rate Under $521 197.3 $521 to $624 193.1 $625 to $779 163.1 $780 to $899 168.4 $900 to $1,199 142.3 $1,200 to $1,200 and over 102.2 U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR CHILDREN’S BUREAU Julia C. Lathrop, Chief INFANT MORTALITY RESULTS OF A FIELD STUDY IN JOHNSTOWN, PA., BASED ON BIRTHS IN ONE CALENDAR YEAR BY EMMA DUKE 1915 (_Certain tables omitted_) INFANT MORTALITY: JOHNSTOWN, PA. _INTRODUCTION_ The term infant mortality, used technically, applies to deaths of babies under 1 year of age. An infant mortality rate is a statement of the number of deaths of such infants in a given year per 1,000 births in the same year. Some countries include stillbirths in making the computations, but this method is not generally followed in this country nor has it been followed in this report.