Child Insurance and Infant Deaths
By Editor
It is stated that the practice of child insurance has led to an epidemic of sudden deaths among infants in the midland counties of England. The favorite scheme is to smother the infant in the bedclothes, and then claim that it was accidentally overlain by the parents in their sleep. Hundreds of such cases have been reported, but no measures have yet been effective to put a stop to the horrible practice. This is the fearful commentary on the condition of affairs in that country and of the abominable crimes committed there. If such things were done in China or Hindostan, or even in the Dark Continent, we would hold up our hands in horror and quote the scripture, "The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty." But what shall we say when they occur in "Christian England"?