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Title: Maryland medical journal
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Baltimore : Manning and Ashby
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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pply. Inspection of the death-rate of children in large cities emphasizesthe great need of improvements of all conditions which willaffect it. Ratio of Death Rate of Children to the Total Mortality. Average of 9 cities of New York State. New York City. Baltimore. 1889 37-0 42.3 1890 355 40.8 49-37 I89I 34.5 41.8 1892 348 41-5 38*82 1893 33-3 39 2 37 72 1894 34-6 42.0 39-64 33 2 41.5 39 03 1896 31.8 397 3758 1897 29.8 39.4 37.62 1898 30.3 383 37-92 1899 32.69 1900 34-34 1901 34-24 It will be seen that there is a decrease in the ratio of infant mor-tality to that of the total mortality. Goler (/. c.) attributes the de-crease in nine cities in New York State to the general improve-ment of medical practice as applied to the diseases of children, andespecially to the securing of a better milk supply. The data in the following table, expressed in Diagram No. 4,shows, however, that in Baltimore, despite an increase in total mor-tality, due largely to increase in population, and a decrease in
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256 MARYLAND MEDICAL JOURNAL june, 1902 infant mortality, there is practically no change for the better in thatclass of diseases of children generally known as summer diarrhea. ~ Mortality Statistics. Infants under Diarrheal Year. Total Mortality. 5 years of age. diseases of infants. 1897 9,329 3.570 830 1898 10,385 3,939 720 1899 10,152 3.319 703 1900 10,700 3,675 848 1901 10 506 2,552 732 Eflforts, crowned with success, have been made to supply thepoor with milk better suited to infant-feeding. Goler (/. c.) in1899 writes that milk stations had been established in Rochester,and milk of definite composition supplied to the poor at cost duringJuly and August. Getty^* describes a milk dispensary estabhshedat Yonkers from which the poor could secure milk, milk mixtures,and barley water for the feeding of sick infants during the summermonths. He notes that with the use of the improved diet there wasa decrease in mortality from diarrheal diseases. Numerous otherplans, varying with the con

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