Infantile mortality and infants milk depôts / by G. F. McCleary.

  • McCleary, G. F. (George Frederick), 1867-1962.
Date:
1905
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    preventive medicine. It is a striking fact that while the general death-rate has steadily declined in this country during recent years, the rate of infantile mortality, since the eighties, ^has shown a tendency to increase. This is shown in the following table: ^— Death-rate Deaths under Years. per 1,000 One Year per Population. 1,000 Births. 1851—1855 22'6 156 1856—1860 21-8 1861—1865 225 1866—1870 22*4 156 1871—1875 21 9 1876—1880 20-8 144 1881—1885 19-4 138 1886—1890 i8-8 1891—1895 187 150 1896—1900 176 156 igoi 169 1902 i6-3 133 1903 i54 132 1904 l62 146 It would seem either that the practical measures of preventive medicine, to which we must attribute much of the decline in the general death-rate, have been without effect on children under one year, or that their effect has been neutralised by the increased action of agencies specially inimical to infant life. In either case, it appears that what is wanted is not so much further progress on the The comparatively low rates of infantile mortality in 1902—1903 are explained by the exceptional meteorological conditions during the summers of those years.