On infantile mortality, and the establishment of hospitals for sick children : read before the Dublin Obstetrical Society, January 8th, 1859 / by William Moore.

  • Moore, William, M.D.
Date:
1859
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Credit: On infantile mortality, and the establishment of hospitals for sick children : read before the Dublin Obstetrical Society, January 8th, 1859 / by William Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INFANTILE MORTALITY AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HOSPITALS FOR SICK CHILDREN. When the subject we are about to entertain is one affecting the mortality of infants and children, I think it may fairly be designated one of interest to all, indi- vidually and collectively. Mr. Charles Dickens, in his speech at the recent festival in aid of the funds for the Hospital for Sick Children, London, said, “ That from the earliest days of his life it had been one of his maxims, to disbelieve the man who told him that he took no interest in children. He felt still bound to that principle by all sorts of considerations, because he knew that any heart that could toughen itself against these little people, must be wanting in so many humanising experiences, as to be a perfect monstrosity in nature.” In addition to the interest which attaches to this subject in a humane and charitable view, the question has become pressing, inasmuch as this special branch of medical science has been so far advanced by our sister kingdom and con- tinental countries, that unless we bestir ourselves, we must take a second place in the race. The statistics of the Registrar-General in England