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devote her whole time to this work. The value of
figures relating to one years work must not of course be
overestimated, but when it is remembered that practically
all who attend are the children of parents in poor and
often distressed circumstances with more or less unsatisfactory
home conditions, the results obtained should
stimulate the Council to further extend this educational
work.
Deaths of Illegitimate Infants
Of the children who died before attaining the age of
one year 66 were illegitimate, the mortality among them
being in the proportion of 330 deaths per 1,000 deaths
against 112 per 1,000 among children born in wedlock.
The subjoined table gives the causes of deaths of
illegitimate children, from which it will be seen that the
rate of the diarrhoeal mortalitv of the illegitimate was
nearly five times that of the legitimate :—