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the deaths from tuberculosis fell by 50 per cent., and it was 

 in that period that food became so abundant and so cheap 

 as they knew it to have been. He thought that the two 

 things went hand in hand, and they would find that some 

 of the reduction in the general death-rate of the country 

 resulted from the prosperity which we were happily enjoying. 

 Might he suggest to the Countess of Aberdeen that perhaps 

 it would be practicable to secure that the nourishment went 

 direct to the nursing mother if it were furnished in the form 

 of dried milk ? They found in his town that dried milk 

 was very useful. It was not a food which appealed to 

 the people for some reason or another, but they knew that 

 it was milk, and they would take it, and, of course, as they 

 all knew, it was a perfect food. It had the additional advan- 

 tage that from the nature of the process which it went 

 through in the process of manufacture it was sterile and was 

 free from all possiblity of conveying disease, and as against 

 the establishment of a depot for modifying or humanizing 

 milk it was very inexpensive. There was one subject in 

 which he was particularly interested, and that was the aspect 

 of the infant mortality problem which was referred to by 

 Mrs. Kirigswell. He recognized that perhaps he was biassed 

 in that matter. He took it that if a medical man wished to 

 save life at all hazards and under all circumstances and by 

 any means it was the unfortunate outcome of his training, 

 and it might be the case that others were better able to judge 

 as to the advisability or not of keeping alive unfortunate 

 babies. On that point he would like to say that they might 

 be sure that the very measures, whether they be direct 

 sanitary measures or whether they be the wider social 

 influences the very measures which lessened the number of 

 deaths at the same time invariably increased the strength 

 and the resisting powers of the survivors. If they had fewer 

 deaths, there would be fewer illnesses and less suffering. 

 Although it might be the case that some babies were born 

 to an inheritance of disease and misery, proportionately they 

 were so few when they were counted out as a percentage 

 of the total, that they might be ignored and left out of 

 account altogether in the general subject of infant mortality. 

 Dr. C. Q. LENANE (Battersea) said he would net have 

 intervened in the discussion but for the observations which 

 had been made by Alderman Cresswell regarding measles. 

 He came from a district which had been from time to time 

 ravaged by measles, and every means that could be tried to 

 deal with the disease from a preventive point of view had 

 been attempted. The result was, however, that notwith- 

 standing all those attempts they were just as badly off in 



