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conditions have been smoothed out and lost. The infantile mortality varies in the same year very
considerably, even in neighbouring parishes, and in this particular parish is dissimilar from any
other in London.
In the same manner, by taking the weights of the Sharp Street boys in Manchester given by an
independent investigator to the Royal Commission on Physical Deterioration and placing above
them the Manchester Infantile Mortality for the years in which they were born, we get diagram (IV.)
Diagram IV.
The Leipsic Road School Boys also show a slight increase in height when they are born in a
year of lower mortality—these boys come from three neighbouring districts, Newington,