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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE INFANT MORTALITY

Author(s) -

Stewart G. Thompson

Publication year - 1921

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2330-9687

pISSN - 0271-4353

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.11.5.415

Subject(s) - superstition , infant mortality , demography , ignorance , population , birth rate , white (mutation) , medicine , mortality rate , environmental health , geography , research methodology , biology , law , sociology , political science , biochemistry , archaeology , gene

In Florida infant mortality increases with the birth rate. Midwives with superstition and ignorance constitute a source of danger, conditions of labor probably contribute somewhat, while insanitary conditions of the home and its surroundings are unfortunate factors. While the rates both for white and for colored population are below those of the Registration Area, they call for processes of betterment.

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