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leaflets dealing with this subject were distributed from
house to house, and it would be well to do this every
year before the hot weather commences. In London and
many of the great towns this rate is as high as 140. But
much is being done to effect an improvement in this verysad
state of things. As a nation we want improvement in
our birth-rate and our infant mortality-rate, and both
subjects ought to be treated as urgent.
Everything goes to prove that the breast-fed infant
has an enormous advantage in the fight for existence over
one artificially-fed.
ZYMOTIC DEATH-RATE.
This rate deals with the number of deaths from the
seven principal zymotic diseases per 1,000 of population.
These amount to eight in number, distributed as follows:—
Measles 1
Scarlet Fever 0
Whooping Cough 4
Diphtheria 0
Enteric Fever 1
Diarrhoea 2
affording a zymotic death-rate of 1.2 per 1,000. This
rate has varied but little for some years, and is quite
satisfactory.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.