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INFANT MOBTALITY. 367
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A # Intakttiie Death-Kates. De. W. T. Ga...
The firmer forms of youth , and manhood often fail to resist the infancy impressible effects of affords prolonged constitution the most exposure of sensitive infan to cy unwholesome test must of the succumb sanitary air . ; The before condition mortali them of ty any the of
tion given and locality of its . To effects enable on the me to health speak and more live accuratel s of the y young of that -I condi made
careful inspection of a number of the , houses in one of the too , closely led and poorest districts of this city a few weeks ago . Moisture
peop from almost an wholl offensive excluded heap percol from ated another the ; w in alls many of one of house them ; -wet light clothes -was y
were in all hung of them up the to dry breathing in the -space single , dee apartment ply tainted within occup , was ied far by below families limited the ;
requirements area none of of the health children ;—thus I saw it were was that well , and I found no very that more than half of the whole of them had died very young . One
onefamil woman three had survived five children out of alive ten , and and had so on lost . I have eight . since In been another
informed in the y houses hy one of of our portion most intelli of the , gent district parochial under medical his charge officers it , is that no
a uncommon eleven and even thing thirteen to find children in families one having or two on ori ly g reaching inally seven adult , n life ine . ,
to Fearful be The found protean as this existing state forms in of of every things tubercular considerable is , , it is disease not town peculiar are in not the to Glasgow simp king ly dom called , . but
system - into —they full induced are activity orig by inated in the such deteriorating there dwellings . Again effects when , the a of enfeebled predisposition vitiated state air , is of exists most the withstand the forms
of unfavorable the I cannot the removable epidemic adduce by causes or rendering any contag more of ious disease children forcible diseases and unable illustration death to which to than they of that the are intensity 118 so liable of the of .
, were 220 deaths from measles occurring —an in thi affection s city , and rarel in y the fatal last among month children of summer who ,
are D carefull eficient y nutrition nursed and whether comfortabl from y impaired lodged . health on the part of
the factory mother operatives , the separation from , home during , or long from intervals positive of inabilit absence y to of procure female
suitable food for the childrenis so obvious as a producing cause . bility that it need the not part be of dwelt the upon parent , ; it while is enoug nursin h to g state and that likewise from from
dein poverty citie on , s no are inconsiderable to be ascribed number while of the much deaths , larger among numbers the young of very
deaths are caused by unwholesome , food given in ignorance by those in [ better MrFraser circumstances then enter . s at length into the deficiency of hospital
accommodation . for sick children in Glasgow—a want which limits the number of cures ,. and deprives the medical student of
opportunities of 'studying their diseases—continuing ] : —
Infant Mobtality. 367
INFANT MOBTALITY . 367
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/7/
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