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INFANT MORTALITY. 363
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A # Intakttiie Death-Kates. De. W. T. Ga...
mining Liskeard 1 were , ( Cornwall capable , ) Ang of being lesea , so & c followed , that even as not lead materiall and copper y to
vaile unfavorabl increase d ; while the y affected gross the death mortalit by - mining rate y of of the than infants distri by was ct many in certainl which other y much they forms pre less of
industry extremel Again . , low amongst death-rates the districts agriculture having assumed moderatel a more y consider but not
able place y as a _staj 3 le industry , than those above referred to ; the farms dening larger often , appeared the proportion on a great of laborers scale emp as in loyed the greater neighborhood ;
gar-, numerous of London , ; but the still population not generall more y above dense the , and rank the of of market towns the districts -towns more
of 4000 to 10000 inhabitants . A large proportion in , the south , -eastern and south-western counties of England were in this position . Most of the great corn-growing districts lower than
of dale death Eng -rate and land for belonged all ages other to . It the districts was class certain of having Eng _, from land a , the that case agriculture of average Glen , -
sanitary upon , a condition considerable many . , Most scale of infantile , was the quite great death ' corn consistent rate -growing much with hi counties her the than best of
Eng it land ht had to be not considering only an the amount - of the general g deathoug , ht to be the
rate towns eminentl ; but and y rural hi the gher small character , also number , than of the of it population oug to , the each small considering acre size of surface of the . persons
It had , been found that in no less than eleven of the fourteen counties of land most devoted to agriculture the ratio of the infantile to
Eng rate the general for their death general -rate was death hi -rate gher ; than and far that ther indicated , that the as ratio the mean was
enormousl all of the y hi eminentl gh . He had agricultural come to the counties conclusion the . that destruction in almost of y
infant life was in excess of what might be expected under the result of his inquiries
the that circumstances the evil was . least He stated in Wiltshire , as general Berks , and Herefordshire , ; , that in EssexSuffolkBucksand Oxfordshire , it was
unequivocall In Hunting y present donshire , , and , Cambrid , to a death still geshire , rate greater , reached Bedfordshire degree its in maximum , Her Lincolnshire tfordshire The , .
and proportion Norfolk between , the infantile the infantile - and general death-rate . was more than 1 to 9—being in Norfolk 1 to 9 * 38 , and in Lincoln
1 to 9-36 . He then remarked on the difficulties in the way of arriving in
at counties a just conclusion On the in hand regard there to the was death distinct -rates evidence agricultural that a
. one , large associated surface in of some soil devoted or almost other in exclusivel England y to and agriculture Wales with was way
a too high rate of infantile mortality . On the other hand c c 2 , it
Infant Mortality. 363
INFANT MORTALITY . 363
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/3/
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