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362 INFANT MORTALITY.
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A # Intakttiie Death-Kates. De. W. T. Ga...
in age England of Iraman , calculated life in every for the division years and 1838 count -44 . y , and in 324 districts
as On compared considering with that broadl of y the the general death that -rate population it of very rather , it young was moderate found infants to ,
be statement immensel of y the different case to , insomuch that where 20 was represents a the general death-rate 150 will be the say death , -rate of infants less than a year old ;
orin other , wordsthat the infantile is 7 J times the general death , -rateThis was , undoubtedlthe case so frequently that it
miht be said . to bein one sense y of the worda normal fact . But it g not always a , normal fact for the infantile , death-rate to be
was returns 7 j times of the the general istrar death -General -rate . it By a farther that consideration as the death of -rates the Reg appears
themselves rise or falltheir proportion , to one another commonly rises or falls also . Thus , when the general death-rate is so low as
exceed 16 in 1 , 6 j times , it is probabl the general , y normal death for -rate the infantile ; and when death the -rate general not to to
be death norm -rate al is for so the high infantile as 22 in death 1 , 000 -rate , it is to probabl be 8 J y times so common the general as deathrateThis tells a tale of some importance as regards the tenure
-. of and infant general life— death for the -rate enlargement , according as of the the rates ratio b themselves etween the the increase infantile ,
tendency which shows produce nothing to produce less a hig than h a rate hi this gh of — rate general that of , generall infant mortalit mortality y y speaking have , a and , still operate greater causes
infant _uj _3 on the life infant is not life only to more a far largel greater y sacrificed degree . than In other the it is general words far , life the
keenl of a population sensitive to under those ordinary causes of circumstances increased mortality , but which produce more y
excep Noticing tionally the hi comp gh death lication -rates which . this introduced into the of inquiry infant ,
very mortality Dr . G low airdrier . death First - gav rates , e as both a regarded few infantile illustration the and districts s general of and the , and counties laws district consequentl having y
a low ratio of the one to the other . These privileged s were found character to ; be the mostl population y rural , commonl often to y a sparse great , the extent towns pastoral few and in
smallthe face of the country uneven or perhaps mountainous ; in siderable many , such amount districts of mining there were industry valuable agriculture minerals pursued and a con in
some of them to a very considerable extent ; ; in others hardly any predominating industrybut a small population supported in a
variety of ital of . ways Of upon the districts a , soil which falling did within not repay this descri large ption advances , the
maj of standing mining cap ority the were exerted apparentl in Wales the y , un health Cornwall favorable of the and influence men Devonshire actuall which y . engaged some Notwith kinds in
on themit seemed certain from the experience of such , places as ,
362 Infant Mortality.
362 INFANT MORTALITY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/2/
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