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BY “infant mortality “is meant the ratio which the number of infants who die in any one year bears to the number of births in that year. The rate for the country generally remained more or less stationary until 1905, since when, however, it has steadily decreased, so that during the last two or three years it has been only about half that which obtained in the late nineties of last century. Infant mortality is of enormous national importance, for with the present low death-rate, which it will be difficult in the future materially to reduce, and a falling birth-rate, now only about two-thirds what it was at the end of last century, the maintenance of our population will largely depend upon the survival of as large a proportion as possible of the infants born.
Infant Mortality.
By Dr. Hugh T. Ashby. Second edition. (Cambridge Public Health Series.) Pp. xii + 224. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1922.) 15s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 111, 530 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111530b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111530b0