Infant mortality; results of a field study in Akron, Ohio : based on births in one year . uses CAUSES PECULIAR TO EARLY INFANCY. The largest number of deaths in Akron occurred, from the groupof causes peculiar to early infancy. Compared to the other citiesstudied by the bureau, Akron had the lowest mortality rate fromthis group of causes, though the mortality from these causes doesnot vary much from city to city. The infants of native and foreign-born mothers had practically the same rates of mortality from thisgroup of causes. Chart I.—Infant mort
Infant mortality; results of a field study in Akron, Ohio : based on births in one year . uses CAUSES PECULIAR TO EARLY INFANCY. The largest number of deaths in Akron occurred, from the groupof causes peculiar to early infancy. Compared to the other citiesstudied by the bureau, Akron had the lowest mortality rate fromthis group of causes, though the mortality from these causes doesnot vary much from city to city. The infants of native and foreign-born mothers had practically the same rates of mortality from thisgroup of causes. Chart I.—Infant mortality rates from specified diseases among infants of all mothers, and of nativeand foreign-born mothers separately. Chstrlo and Intestinal DiseasesAll Bothers HatlTe Doth^rs Korelgn-torn notbers All mothersNative mothersForelgn-bom aotlwr* All mothersIbtive BMthersIbrelgn-hoin ooUtsrs Obviously, most of the deaths from premature births, congenitaldebiUty, and injuries at birth—the causes grouped under diseases ofearly infancy—occur in the first two weeks or in the first month of. AKKON, OHIO. 23 life. Practically all the deaths that occur in the first two weeks oflife are to be attributed to one or the other of these causes, which ingeneral are due to prenatal or natal conditions. The stillbirths alsoare caused by the same general conditions as are responsible for mostof the deaths under two weeks. Nearly aU these deaths and still-births are due to conditions affecting the mother before birth or tocompHcations at confinement, most of which are preventable byskilled obstetrical care. Of the 262 stillbirths and deaths, 69 werestillbirths and 73 deaths occurred in the first two weeks of life, atotal of 142, or 54 per cent of all the losses. A somewhat moreaccurate way of measuring the importance of prenatal and natalconditions upon infant mortahty and death prior to birth is to addto the stillbirths the deaths ascribed to diseases of early procedure gives a tota
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