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It is a source of gratification to find that the infantile
mortality has again fallen and is the lowest recorded.
Table V. gives a tabulated list of the causes of death
of all children under 1 year of age.
There was a diminution in the death.rate from Epidemic
Diarrhoea in infants owing to there being no extremes of temperature.
This disease is found to be much more common in
bottle.fed infants.
Once again the Wasting Diseases, which include Premature
Birth, Atrophy, etc., are responsible for nearly 50 per cent,
of infant deaths. These are practically unpreventable, as in
most cases they are due to the parents. constitutional condition.
With a view to remedying these conditions, the Notification
of Births Act (1907) was passed, but has not yet been
adopted in this Borough. In other districts where in force and
a trained Nurse as Health Visitor has been appointed to call on
and advise the parents as to the care and feeding of the children,
the mortality from such causes as bad feeding and
insanitary conditions has been diminished.
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