Infant mortality; results of a field study in Akron, Ohio : based on births in one year . GIFT OF SUP^iNTEr^l>5NT OF liocUi^lENTS. WASHINGTONGOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE .1920 L f, ^; I / CONTENTS Page. Letter of transmittal 9 Introduction 11-13 Description of city 11-12 Population—size and composition 12 Method of procedure 12 Cooperation 13 Analysis of findings 15-65 Infant mortality rate 15 Infant mortality, by districts 15-17 Valley and business districts 16 East exchange and southwest district 17 Nativity and nationality of mother 17-21 Slavs 18 Italians 19 Germans 20 Magyars 20 Cause of


Infant mortality; results of a field study in Akron, Ohio : based on births in one year . GIFT OF SUP^iNTEr^l>5NT OF liocUi^lENTS. WASHINGTONGOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE .1920 L f, ^; I / CONTENTS Page. Letter of transmittal 9 Introduction 11-13 Description of city 11-12 Population—size and composition 12 Method of procedure 12 Cooperation 13 Analysis of findings 15-65 Infant mortality rate 15 Infant mortality, by districts 15-17 Valley and business districts 16 East exchange and southwest district 17 Nativity and nationality of mother 17-21 Slavs 18 Italians 19 Germans 20 Magyars 20 Cause of death 21-26 Causes peculiar to early infancy 22 Gastric and intestinal diseases 23 Respiratory diseases 25 Superstitions concerning cause of death 26 Age at death 26 Stillbirths 27 Sex 28 Age of mother 28 Order of birth 29 Confinement care ? 29-32 Attendant at birth 29 Confinement period 31 Msitemal mortality 32 Feeding 32-36 Mortality rates, by kind of feeding 34 Economic status of family 36-44 General industrial conditions 37 Poverty 37 Earnings of father 37 Infant mortality an


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