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    INEANT MORTALITY. 365

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    A # Intakttiie Death-Kates. De. W. T. Ga...

    death After rate giving of the one West or two End other districts examp of les London of the hi Dr g . h Gairdner infantile

    of summed his - calculations up his remarks that the on this subject of districts by stating whicK , as enclosed the result all group

    that was best and , noblest , and , in one sense , healthiest and most vigorous in London , was about as murderous Bethnal to infant and s under White a

    and chapel year the old taken tradesmen as the together districts and . of artisans Even Shoreditch the of the , sailors Strand around -green and City , the districts docks - , , infantile mortalit

    small might compared boast that with their that contribution of the rich to the , prosperous , and polished y was West EndDrGairdnerin conclusionalluded to the two

    conclusions which . he . had drawn , as to the , influence of large agricultural populations on the infantile confessed death-rate that , and these the startle influence d him of

    the not with West mere something End play of of like London the a fancy sense , and , of he novelty ventured . If to they call were them facts nothing , and attentionand

    words calling less than in for which stupendous remed they y with could facts a possibl , voice deserving far be uttered more immediate eloquent . He shrank than , from any

    the ideawith the imperfect data y before him , of attempting to expatiate , upon this subject , or to explore the whole depth of

    In sumed these the tremendous with meantime larger evils it knowled woul . Possibl d be ge y sufficient and the subject in for a more mi his ght p decisive urpose be again if tone the re- .

    attention of the Association should have been fully awakened to some of the evils which afflict the most helpless age of humanity , lish

    and tend to poison the springs of health for the entire Engrace . _ON THE EXCESSIVE INFANTILE _MORTALITY OCCURRING IN CITIES

    AND LARGE TOWNS . BY JAMES ERASER , M . D ., GLASGOW . tion and Dr children and . Fraser therefore lay began at claimed the by root saying the of that consideration all other the rig p ht lans management of Sanitary for social Reformers ameliora of infants

    in It an , is especial well known manner that . He one went -fourth on part as follows of all : — the children born

    the alive diseases in England chiefl die incident before they to childhood reach their are fifth twice birthday as fatal , and in that the y

    the town death districts -rate as under they the are fifth in the year country during . the In this month city of ( in Jul which y last authoritof the

    was not the highest in Scotland ) , I find , on the y fifth Reg 1 , 014 istrar year ; 563 - . General , In or a fifty nei , - that five ghboring per while cent town the , of the the total number number and number , the occurred was of not sixty deaths widel under -two was dis per the

    cent similar . To fi give which true si mi gnificance ht be quoted to these in , reference to other y cities - , however gures it will be necessary g while bearing in mind the imperfect

    bodily development , , the increased , activity of the vital processes , and

    Ineant Mortality. 365

    INEANT MORTALITY . 365

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/5/