Infant mortality; results of a field study in Akron, Ohio : based on births in one year . on river bank. XVII.—Lot crowding (2 houses 19 inches apart) (Steam from canal justnorth of a factory).XVIII.—Attractive gardens in small —Cottage in the outskirts. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. U. S. Department of Labor, Childrens Bureau,Washington, November 1, : Herewith I transmit a study of infant mortality made by theChildrens Bureau in the city of Akron, Ohio. Miss Theresa S. Haley was director of the field work and has writ-ten the report. Special acknowledgment is made of the services
Infant mortality; results of a field study in Akron, Ohio : based on births in one year . on river bank. XVII.—Lot crowding (2 houses 19 inches apart) (Steam from canal justnorth of a factory).XVIII.—Attractive gardens in small —Cottage in the outskirts. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. U. S. Department of Labor, Childrens Bureau,Washington, November 1, : Herewith I transmit a study of infant mortality made by theChildrens Bureau in the city of Akron, Ohio. Miss Theresa S. Haley was director of the field work and has writ-ten the report. Special acknowledgment is made of the services ofthe special agents, Mr. Frank Drown and the Misses Alice Gannett,Alice Hill, Ehzabeth Moore, Etta Philbrook, Marion Shaffner, Jessa-mine S. Whitney, Margaretta Williamson, and Mr. Harry Robert M. Woodbury wrote the appendix on method of pro-cedure. The Childrens Bureau acknowledges, with appreciation, the cordialcooperation of municipal authorities, of volunteer associations, andof the press of Akron. Julia C. Lathrop, W. B. Wilson, Secretary of INFANT MORTALITY-AKRON, OHIO. INTRODUCTION. Akron, Ohio, was chosen as the seventh city in the series of studiesmade by the Childrens Bureau into the social and economic condi-tions underlying infant mortality. The population of Akron hadincreased very rapidly within the past few years, chiefly by the addi-tion of persons of foreign birth, and 19 per cent of the population in1910 were foreign bom. Industrial conditions in Akron were differ-ent from those in the other cities studied; the rubber industry pre-dominated ; wages were relatively high. Located in the central partof Ohio, it afforded an opportunity to study the effect upon infantmortality of conditions in an industrial city of the Middle West. Itseemed desirable to make a study of such a city; and Akron, thoughnot in the birth-registration area, appeared to have fairly completerecords of births and deaths. The procedure adopted, discussed
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