Startling Facts | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1871

Startling Facts.

In speaking of recent social changes in India, many persons have been accustomed to reckon infanticide among the things that were. It appears, however, from recent inquiries and statistics, that such an opinion is far from correct. The Pall Mall Gazette has lately given circulation to some facts on the subject which are both startling and horrible. The facts given are presented in connection with a bill for the suppression of infanticide, recently introduced into the Legislative Chamber of the North-west Provinces. The extent of the crime may be judged from some inquiries made previous to the mutiny, by Mr. Moore, on behalf of government, and by similar inquiries by the governor, of the North-west Provinces, of quite recent date. In ten villages examined by the governor, one hundred and four boys were found and only one girl, nor had any women been married for ten years. In twenty-seven others there were two hundred and eighty-four boys and seventy-three girls; in nine villages, seventy-one boys and seven girls; and in other localities the very tradition of marriage had been lost. The slaughter of female children must therefore have been enormous.