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INFANTILE TUBERCULAR DISEASE.
Various forms of Tuberculosis caused twenty-eight
deaths, a mortality of nearly seven per thousand
births. There were ten deaths from tabes mesenterica.
All these together with some of the other tubercular
deaths were visited by Miss Harris, and as to sixteen
of these she reports that four were entirely breast fed,
five had cows' milk, four condensed and three patent
foods. The father of one infant was phthisical and
four of the mothers were similarly diseased. In three
instances there was a family history of tuberculosis.
SUFFOCATION.
The deaths from suffocation (overlaying) numbered
thirty-five, one in excess of the previous year.