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Infant health depends in the main on single domestic
hygienic precautions, and the improvement which has taken
place must be attributed to the spread of education amongst
mothers, as to the best methods to be adopted to secure the
care and comfort of infants, and to the general improvement
which has taken place in sanitation during the period. These
remarks particularly apply to the age period, two to twelve
months. The rates given above shew that further improvement
must take place in the first month of life—a more
difficult matter because it involves ante-natal and natal
care. If I read this Table correctly, there is evidence that
this improvement is now beginning.
Table No. 23 which follows, gives in similar detail corresponding
information for the different registration districts
for the quinquennium 1919-1923.