Medicine: Born Orphans

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. last week calculated that one out of every 280 children born in the U. S. is born after its father's death, and that one out of 297 causes its mother's death in childbirth. Each of these two types of born orphans now numbers about 400,000 in the U. S.

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