The report of the Philadelphia baby saving show, and the proceedings of the Conference on infant hygiene . nfantile Mortality.—A century of the historyof infantile mortality, showing all the data availalile for various countries as com-piled by the French government. The foreign countries are the same as in DiagramsNos. 3 and -1, the century being by five-year periods from ISOl to 1!)10 for deathsof infants under 1 year of age (stillbirths excluded) i)er 1,000 living births. [FromStatistique Generale de la France.] The era of modern sanitary civilization may be marked by the dates uponwhich va


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