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thirty-three cases there was a history of phthisis on
either the mother's or the father's side. In one case
where no information as to feeding could be obtained,
the mother was in an advanced stage of phthisis, and
she herself died at the same time as her baby. Both
parents of another infant were suffering from phthisis;
they were alternately being admitted as in-patients at
hospitals, one being under treatment whilst the other
took care of the household; the mother was in
hospital at the time of Miss Harris's visit.
The deaths from suffocation (overlaying) have
decreased and number twenty-four against thirty-two
in 1907; possibly the attention which has been
recently drawn by the public press to the ordinary
causes of this so-called "accident" may have deterred
some parents from putting their infants to sleep in the
same bed with themselves.