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    INFANT MORTALITY. 369

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    A # Intakttiie Death-Kates. De. W. T. Ga...

    lie lish may incalculable hope , in co- good operation by preventive with , the sanitary means , reformer in mitigating , to accom - the

    p severity of the . diseases and saving the lives of those whom we have seen the neglect of sanitary laws so powerfully impress .

    lig Th ht _£ on preceding the subj ect remarks to which do wide , not they , I refer am . well devastation To aware the , causes throw of infant to any which new life _,

    allusion has been made , the -spread vation has been however repeatedl in y traced circumstances . As the affording result of unusual independent facilities obser for

    inquiry , , they may , perhaps be regarded as not wholly destitute of some little corroborative value .

    • IS THE ERADICATION- OF DOMESTIC _PESTILENCE _POSSIBLE ? BY DR . _DRITITT , ONE OF THE HEALTH OFPICEES OF LONDON .

    We give the following paper on this important subject nearly in full : —

    class By of the disorders term " Domestic of which small Pestilence , " measles I signif scarlet y collectivel fever y and the

    pox , , , numerous whooping- less coug known h are and the less chief formidable examples members ; and of — which such as there chicken are

    pox , lichen , shingles , mumps , and the like . To such maladies , the even voidable public if mind protected evils seems , and by that to vaccination acquiesce every human from in the the being conviction first , in must this that country expect they to are at suffer least una- ,

    , once A reasonable in his life from answer four to , or the five question of the remainder , Is it possible . to extirpate

    them ? can only be got by a study of the facts , and of their relation to the whole order of nature . If we ask , "Is it probable ? " the

    answer will be supplied by a knowledge of the human mind , of itsexisting habits and modes of thought , and of the possibility or

    otherwise of increasing the comfort , intelligence , and self-respect of the The population Arabian . physicians held that the smallpox was produced certain by

    a . natural effervescence of the blood , and that it was , under conditionsas natural and intrinsic a part of the phenomena of life as the cutting , of the teethMore rigorous inquiry shows that it ,

    . as well as the other maladies at the head of which it stands , is the fruit of external and accidental causes ; and thatas a man who takes

    a dose of elaterium will suffer from toms , of choleraand as one who saturates his blood with the symp cubeb-pepper will suffer , from

    intense feverrash on the skin , and hematuria , which symptoms neither or the person pepper _^ would respectivel have had y , so if he one had man not swallowed who imbibes who the elaterium a imbibes certain

    material substance will have cholera , and another another substance will have scarlet fever , and unless he imbibes

    having one If , of then these bodil , the poisons y existence causes will of , hav they these e neither must pestilences exi disease st somewhere are . material , and substances it must ,

    Infant Mortality. 369

    INFANT MORTALITY . 369

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/9/