The report of the Philadelphia baby saving show, and the proceedings of the Conference on infant hygiene . lk depotson mortality are the results ofthe establishment of milk depotsin the villages in the Provinceof Bouches-du-Rhonc in southernFrance, as shown graphically incharts by P. Budin.* The general movement forthe establishment of milk depotsin this province was begun in1903. In order to ascertain theefficiency of this establishment ofmilk depots, the mortality in thetowns having milk depots in 1904was compared with that of thesame towns in the year 1898,and, as seen in Fig. 1, the mor-ta
The report of the Philadelphia baby saving show, and the proceedings of the Conference on infant hygiene . lk depotson mortality are the results ofthe establishment of milk depotsin the villages in the Provinceof Bouches-du-Rhonc in southernFrance, as shown graphically incharts by P. Budin.* The general movement forthe establishment of milk depotsin this province was begun in1903. In order to ascertain theefficiency of this establishment ofmilk depots, the mortality in thetowns having milk depots in 1904was compared with that of thesame towns in the year 1898,and, as seen in Fig. 1, the mor-taUty in all the eleven townscontaining milk depots showedsome diminution. In order tobe sure that this was not due toother conditions than the milk depots, the mortality in the same years of these eleven towns was compared witheleven neighboring towns in which no milk depots were established (Fig. i) and itwas found that in the last eleven towns there was an invariable increase in mor-tality in 1904 over 1898. *La Mortalite Infantile dans les Bouches-du-Rhone, by Pierre Budin. LObstetricjue, July, 7.—In Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. a morUlity of 103 wasreduced to only 3-2, while the mortality there in milk-depot-fed children was G6 in 190-1 and 0 in figures are compared on this chart with thoseof three other towns of the same district having no milkdepots, which show a motality in 1905 of 17G, 163and 117. 198 REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BABY SAVING SHOW These figures encouraged the expansion of this work, so that in 1905 a verymuch larger number of infants were fed, and with this a greatly diminished death-rate was noted. Thus, in Fig. 3, it will be seen that in Auxerre in 1898, with no milk depots,205 infants under one year of age of every 1000 born died; in 1904, with somemilk depots, 120 died; while in 1905, with a considerable increase in milk depots,only 60 died. The mortality at the same time in infants fed at the milk depots ThC ntPuc-ioN IH »Mr^MT noitTAUiTY
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