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INFANT MORTALITY AND ITS CAUSES. 175
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* , About One-Fourth Of All The Children...
reg of deaths istered of below the zero onl old y for and a the few very days , young a proportionate may be expected increase ; very
the heat-producing power—in the one case declining , in the other not "Want fully of developed exercise — must is overtaxed be ranke , and d as fatal another disease cause steps of swiftl death y in to .
infants . Dr . Routh has detailed , in his excellent work on " Infant zontal s Feedin erve our position g , " present the exp in the erience Hosp of since ice M des . the Hervieux Enfans same cause _IVouves on the affects , abuse at Paris the of mortality . the It hori will
nursery of newly sixt born y feet infants purpose long in by , general twenty . feet There wide is , in and this in establishment this apartment a
these are ranged little creatures eighty-four onl cots y nine to receive women the are children employed .. To during attend the upon clay
and two during the night . If it is assumed that each child is taken up six times a day , the time during which with they the are in the
nurse's arms nmst be very limited compared long monotonous hours in which they lie prostrate and unheeded . They have not the advantage of the heat derived from lying in the arms
of a mother or a nurse , and the ample exercise obtained under natural circumstances by shaking and petting . It is easy to
understand howfrom this state of things , the elements of fatal disease too often , —the temperature of the body fallsthe extremities
coolthe circulation appear becomes slower , and the respiration , embarrassed . Of , all causes of deaththat which concerns the nutrition of the
infant' is the most potent , . If the food supplied him is either scanty soon succumbs or in excess Wan , or t of of improper breast milk qualit holds y , his a delicate prominent organism place
. in a large the weekl percentage y death-roll of the of the mortalit Registrar y from -General all causes , and , to of this children cause
under one year old is ascribed . Besides immediate destruction of life , there are other consequences
relative hardly less effects calamitous of feeding . Some and suckling very instructive infants have observations been made on the at
from the Hosp observations ital for Children of 1041 at cases Manchester but it . would The results be out were of lace obtained here p
to follow them throughout , . It is , enough to say , that out of 150 children reared exclusively at the breast to the ninth month or
in long a er medium , 94 , or condition 62 ' 6 per , while cent , were only well 21 , or developed 14 _pex - , cent 35 , or , were 23 * 3 , badl were y
of developed those who . Still had taking breast the milk cases for in shorter groups , periods it is further , or who shown besides that
breast milk had other food from the first , the number of the welldeveloped notabldiminished . The last group of 5 0 contains those
fed exclusively by y hand . Of these unhappy ones only 5 , or 10 per cent , were well-developed , 13 , or 26 per cent , were in the medium
state , while 32 , or 64 per cent , were badly developed . It _appeals then , from comparing the percentages , that of those nourished in
the natural way , nearly as many were in a sound condition as
Infant Mortality And Its Causes. 175
INFANT MORTALITY AND ITS CAUSES . 175
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/31/
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