PEDIATRICS Vol. 40 No. 4 October 1967, pp. 547-549
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MORTALITY AND MORALITY

ALFRED YANKAUER M.D.1

1 Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 55 Shattuck Street Boston, Massachusetts 02115

AS REPORTED by James Joyce, the following explanations of the problem of infant mortality were advanced by the house staff of a Dublin Maternity Hospital:

Mr. M. Mulligan (Hyg. et Eng. Doc.) blames the sanitary conditions. . . . These factors, he alleges, and the revolting spectacles offered by our streets hideous publicity posters, . . . mutilated soldiers and sailors . . . paranoic bachelors and unfructified duennas . . . were responsible for any and every falling off in the calibre of the race. Kalipedia, he prophesied, would soon be generally adopted. . . . Mr. J. Crotthers (Disc. Bacc.) attributes some of these demises to abdominal trauma in the case of women workers subjected to heavy labours . . . but by far the vast majority to neglect, private or official. . . .




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