AUSTRIA: Free to Babes

The Socialist municipal government of Vienna announced last week that to each babe of poor parentage hereafter born in the municipal area there will be furnished free a complete "layette" or outfit of linen necessities, and two large sheets. Mothers with twins or triplets may claim two or three "layettes," as the case may be; but only two full sized sheets will be supplied in each maternal case, though it be quintuplets.

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