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Voi. vi. February 1, 1861. No. 36.
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LV.-INFANT MORTALITY.*
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a # INTAKTTIIE DEATH-KATES. De. W. T. Ga...
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The
THE
EIGLISH WOMAN'S
_JOURNALI'UBIL . ISHEI _) MONTHLY .
Voi. Vi. February 1, 1861. No. 36.
Voi . vi . February 1 , 1861 . No . 36 .
Lv.-Infant Mortality.*
LV .-INFANT MORTALITY . *
A # Intakttiie Death-Kates. De. W. T. Ga...
a # _INTAKTTIIE DEATH-KATES . De . W . T . GairdnerF . R . C . P . E . read a paper " On Infantile
. Death-Rates , in their , bearing on , Sanitary and Social Science . " After some preliminary remarks on the great value justly attached
to the death-rates of young- children , as indicating the favorable or unfavorable sanitary position of a community , he said that the
importance of these infantile death-rates depended on two considerations—first , that infants were much more easily affected than the
general community by most of those causes of disease and death _vrhich were common to all ; and secondlythat their dependence
, upon their parents for bodily organization , as well as for proper nourishment and support subsequent to birth , made the sanitary
state of very young children a most delicate test of the real health and well-being of the parentsi . e . of their social and moral
condition at the productive period of , life , and in so far as concerns the domestic relations . He was not so sanguine as to hope to be able
to deduce from , the infantile death-rates conclusions of a perfectly stable and unquestionable character ; but there could be no harm
in assuming that the comparison of infantile death-rates with one another , and with the general death-rates of the population in
different districts , was calculated to throw light upon social science , and to lead to some conclusions whichwhen fairly discussedmight
be worthy of a place in the records of the , Association . After , stating that he had chosen to confine himself to the period under one
year in preference to the more usual one of under five years , as representing the death-rate of the earliest period of life , and
also , in the most distinct form , the hazards to which infant lives were exposedhe proceeded to askwhether we could arrive at
any secure conclusions , as to the relation , which the infantile bears to the general death-rate ? In order to solve this problem , he had
availed himself very fully of the laborious calculations appended by the Registrar-General of England to his Ninth Annual Report , in
which were given a death-rate for each sex , and for every separate N ¦ ational * Special Assoc reports iation of for papers the Promotion ' read ' in the Social Public Science Health , at Glasgow Section . of the ¦)
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/1/
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