Proceedings of the Allahabad Medical Society.

  • Allahabad Medical Society.
Date:
1882
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    per 1,000 at the age of six and rising to 12' between the ages of seven and fifteen. In 1877 the same statement shows a mortality ranging from 233* per 1,000 for children up to six months to per 1,000 for those between seven and fifteen years of age. In 1876 tha ratio for children under six months was 270' per 1,000, falling to per 1,000 for those between seven and fifteen years old. The ratio of deaths in the United Kingdom is given generally as 230* per 1,000 for children under one year, and the same for ages between two and fifteen years; but it is to bo remembered that phthisis and other chest affections, not prevalent in this country, account for the high mortality after infant life is passed. The ratio of deaths for native children in this country is given in the report of the Sanitary Commissioner for the North-Western Provinces and Oudh. Taking the year 1880, the deaths of infants less than one year was 178* per 1,000, of children from one to fifteen years 18‘ per 1,000. The mortuary returns for European soldiers’ children thus do not give a high mortality for the years when education begins— that is, after seven years of age ; but it may pointed out that the extent of sickness is not, and cannot be, given in general returns; and hence on this subject the experience of the Profession must be relied on to bear out the fact that European children do suffer from a hot climate, and that it is highly desirable, when practicable, that they should be removed from the plains during the hot mouths after the age of eight or nine. It would be well if statistics were procurable giving the ratio of mortality of children in school's in Hill Stations. Perhaps such statistics are available. The Sanitary Commissioner’s returns do not give the mortality of Eiu’opean soldiers’ children located in the hills apart from those located in the plains. It may, however, be confidently stated that there is a consensus of medical opinion as to the great advantage of a hill climate for children after the age indicated. It may be said that a change to a cool climate will insure strength of body, and that with physical strength will come mental vigor. It seems, therefore, the duty of the Profession to press the subject on the attention of Government with regard to