Infantile Mortality.

White Ribbon, Volume 15, Issue 176, 16 February 1910, Page 11

Infantile Mortality.

In all countries the death rate umong>t infants is so high that it is nothing less than a blot on our civilization, ( hit of every thousand children horn in one year, from ten t*» twenty per cent, and sometimes even thirty per cent, die before they reach tin age of twelve months. Stu b a death-rate is out of all proportion to what it ought to be. 'Take Huddersfield, Kngland, for example. For ten years the average infantile death-rate was over three hundred per year for every thousand infants born. Then a serious attempt was made to educate the mothers in the care of their babies, with such good results that the mortality dropped to two hundred and twelve per thousand in l!M)7. We think that four or live per cent is high enough, and that the balance ought to ho, and would he, saved through better care of both mother and child.