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Child Deaths During the Heat Wave

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 9, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 31.

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Child Deaths During the Heat Wave

The death of 146 children of New York during the week ending July 24 is attributed to heat. The whole number of children dying in the same period was 872, an increase of 21 per cent over the same week a year ago. The heat wave extended to the cities of the West. Kansas had its hottest day July 25, with temperature at 101; the thermometer at Joplin, Mo., was 107; at Guthrie, Okla., 111.