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An Examination of some Factors influencing the Rate of Infant Mortality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

M. Greenwood Jr  and
J. W. Brown
M. Greenwood Jr
Affiliation:
Statistician to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.
J. W. Brown
Affiliation:
Assistant in the Statistical Laboratory, The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.
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In all countries which make statistical returns, attention has been directed to the large proportion of children failing to complete one year of life. Even the most highly civilised races lose in this way more than ten per cent, of their potential citizens as will appear from the data contained in the following table (Deutsche Sterbetafeln, 1910).

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , May 1912 , pp. 5 - 45
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1912

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