Statistical analysis of infant mortality and its causes in the United Kingdom / by Helen M. Blagg.

  • Blagg, Helen M.
Date:
1910
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    PREFACE. ♦ Throughout this paper the subject of Infant Mortality has been treated from the statistical point of view, i.e., from the standpoint of the collection of facts rather than the setting forth of theories, either biological or sociological. Readers who study the tables here given will doubtless draw their own conclusions, which may possibly differ from those suggested in the latter part of the paper. Obviously, the subject of Infant Mortality is too big a one to be adequately treated in so few pages, and this pamphlet does not pretend to be more than an introduction to its study. There is great need foP further investigation as to the causes for this high 1 death-rate among infants, and much good will be done if medical officers of health in all parts of the country, and others whose work gives them the opportunity, will continue to collect facts and make observations on the subject from the scientific point of view, as suggested at the conferences held at s Caxton Hall in 1906 and igo8. If the diseases of infancy were scientificalfy-attd uniformly classified all over the United Kingdom, the ^orir^ffuturP^trffiiffis would be greatly simplified and improved. I have to thank Dr. George Reid, D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health for Staffs County Council, for most kindly reading through the proof-sheets at very short notice. H. M. B. January, 1910.