Observations on the mortality and physical management of children / [John Roberton].

  • Roberton, John, 1797-1876.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Observations on the mortality and physical management of children / [John Roberton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and decrease of certain diseases, the comparative healthiness of different situations, climates, and seasons, the influence of different trades and manufactures on longevity, with many other curious circumstances, not more beneficial to physicians than beneficial to mankind, would be ascertained with tolerable precision. In several of the larger towns in Scotland, mor- tality registers have long been kept. Sweden, however, is pre-eminently distinguished for the universality, acciuacy, and comprehensiveness of its registers. From them extensive tables have been extracted and published, which furnish data equally curious and important. Although I could have wished for more ample materials to illustrate the subject of infantile mortality, yet perhaps sufficient are brought forward in the following section, from which to deduce a pretty accurate estimate of its amount in various parts of the kingdom, in large cities, towns, villages, and in the open country.