1232 children, of whom nearly 180,000 are born each year, the birth-rate in the first year is 32'7 7 per cent. Bavaria has the highest infantile mortality of all the German States, but the figures for 1912 are more favourable, and show that only 37,013 children under one year died, as compared with 46,665 in the previous year. The rate in the cities was 15. 5 per cent. of the births (in 1911 20 per cent.); in the country, 18.4 4 per cent. (22'9 9 per cent. in 1911). The high figures for 1911

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... , however, due in part to the hot summer. The rate in Munich has sunk very noticeably, the figures being ; 1891-95, 30' 3 per cent. ; 1896-1900, 28 per cent. ; 1900-5, 26-6 6 per cent. ; and 1906-10, 19 per cent. To improve conditions the Bavarian Parliament has appropriated £2500. An association for the care of infants has been started, and will found affiliated societies in the provinces. Prominent officials and physicians are to take part in the work. The hospital treatment of infants has made great advances. Twenty years ago the infant mortality in the hospitals was from 60 to 70 per cent. ; at present it is lower than the general infantile death-rate, although the hospitals only receive severe cases. A sanatorium for consumptive children is being built near the Lake of Constance at a cost of :E25,000.