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manifest advantage. I think we might also with benefit
arrange with the Registrar of Births and Deaths to hand
to parents registering the birth of a child a short leaflet
or card containing plain and easily understood directions
for the management and rearing of infants during the
first 2 or 3 years of life. Mothers should be urged always
to suckle their babies if at all possible, for everything
goes to prove that the breast-fed baby starts life with an
enormous advantage over one artificially fed.
ZYMOTIC DEATH-RATE.
This rate deals with the number of deaths from
the seven principal zymotic diseases per iooo of population.
These amount to seven in number, distributed
as follows : •—
Measles ... ... ... o
Scarlet Fever ... ... o
Whooping Cough ... ... 2
Diphtheria and Membraneous
Croup ... ... ... o
Enteric Fever ... ... o
Diarrhoea ... ... ... 5
Small Pox ... ... o
Affording a zymotic death-rate of 0-59 per 1000.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.