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If the Birth-rate had kept its normal position, the Infantile
Mortality could have gone on as it has for 50 years with
little variation, but if the decline in the population has caused
people to think, more especially mothers to exercise greater care
with their children it will not be at all a serious thing, but a veiled
blessing, for it will be better to have a lower birth-rate if it means
a lower Infantile Mortality, but something more than talking
or writing must be done if it is to be bought about.
Many suggestions have been made, such as the establishment
of pure milk depots under public control, the appointment
of Lady Health Visitors, the teaching of Domestic Hygiene in
the Public Elementary Schools, the opening of special Evening
Classes for young women in which to be taught Domestic and
Infant Hygiene.
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These suggestions are all good, and when put into practical
form will reduce the Infantile Mortality rate.
Personally, I look to education as the best means of uprooting
existing ignorance.
DEATHS FROM THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Three hundred and forty deaths were registered in the Borough
from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, being equal to a
Zymotic Death-rate of 2.9 per 1000 living, as compared with 174
deaths and a death-rate of 1.57 for the year 1903, and an average
death-rate of 2.33 for the past 5 years.