INFANT MORTALITY IN RUSSIA.
1,200,000 DEATHS ANNUALLY. . ' , Tho International. Congress recontly held at i Brussels has reawakoned public. attention i : (states Router's Agency) .to. tho terrible rato ( of infant mortality ,in Russia. The death- ■ rato per 1000 in various: Euippean countries among children below, one y<yir of ago is. ap- ] !. proximately as follows;—NWway 79,"Sweden i . 93,.-.Denmark 112,. England 132,\ Franco* 137 1 -. Btilgiirai looj. Italy. 172,: Germany.: 204.';' In , Japan tho mortality is ;152 per .thousand. Ac- , :. cording -to tho .last Kussian- sta- 1 'feistics) ' the doath-rato among, -'children."-'in tho GhenligofF,: Kharkoff.',and PdWa Govern- i monts is 217; in .the Smolensk,-Tamb'olF (■ !'Arid< V.Vihut .Governments - 310; and in the i «. Nijni-Novgorod; Perm-,- and- Viatica Govern- ] . meitts 440. . The only-diminution shown is . in tho froptier.; ; provinces. 'Esthonia and ] C'ourlaud liavo' a'deatli-rate of 163, and Fin- i ; land of 127. Tho annual mortality in European Russia among children muter;-twelve I ' months roaohos 'the onormfiUß :finuro of i over 1,200,000. i
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 10
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