. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1910, . ath-rate at all ages. True, this death-rate includesstill-births and congenital malformations, etc., but then so it should. It is generally-agreed that no infant death-rate should omit or exclude these. In greater XewYork, in 1907, 17,437 infants died under one year of age, a rate of about 15 per cent. In Boston, Washington, Baltimore, Xew Orleans. Philadelphia and Brooklyn,the rate varied from to per cent. The importance of infant mortality may be better appreciated when we re-member that it is the best index to the sanitary condition of
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1910, . ath-rate at all ages. True, this death-rate includesstill-births and congenital malformations, etc., but then so it should. It is generally-agreed that no infant death-rate should omit or exclude these. In greater XewYork, in 1907, 17,437 infants died under one year of age, a rate of about 15 per cent. In Boston, Washington, Baltimore, Xew Orleans. Philadelphia and Brooklyn,the rate varied from to per cent. The importance of infant mortality may be better appreciated when we re-member that it is the best index to the sanitary condition of a community. In theclean, careful, civilized, intelligent, industrious family, the baby lives. In the dirty,careless, uncivilized, ignorant, lazy family, the baby dies. There are exceptions, butthis is the rule. Where municipal and personal hygiene is attended to, you find theinfantile death-rate low. Where the milk is dirty, the water supply not above sus-picion, the streets unswept. tlie flies numerous, the food uncovered and uncared From McClearys Infantile Mortality. THE GOTA DE LECHE, MADRID.—(WEIGHING THE BABIES.)Inaugurated .January. 1904, by H M. the Queen of Spain. the refuse not properly disposed of, fresh air scarce, and the people poor andignorant, the infantile death-rate shows it as sure as fate. And one of the mostdisturbing facts is that, while the general death-rate is going down, the infantiledeath-rate, except in some places, where people have wakened up and are doingsomething about infant mortality, is not going down. And it is not going downin Ontario. We are not working at it much. And it takes plenty of hard workto get the infantile death-rate down. One may say that France began the moderncampaign to save the baby. We may be guilty of a little inward smile at may allow ourselves one little private reflection that France needs to. Thereare so few children born in France. But Ontario is a close second. Hardly any-where outside of France is t
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