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Other influences have been at work, but it is difficult to exactly
gauge the relative value of the different factors which have
operated in the reduction of infantile mortality, and more
especially of diarrhœal diseases.
Health visiting has now been carried on in Acton for over
six years, and when a comparison is made between the infantile
mortality of the period in which this factor has been operative
with the mortality prior to the appointment of a health
visitor, the result is certainly gratifying. But, as has been
stated, the conditions in the two periods are not identical, and
some allowance must be made for climatic conditions.