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mortality than the intervening, second and third, quarters. The 

 relation of rural to urban mortality in infancy is not that of good 

 and bad, but that of bad and worse. 



The Census Mortality Report for 1908 contains, for the first 



time, a table of deaths by single years of life (U. S. Census 



Report on Mortality; Table 13). It accounts for the years 1900 



to 1905 inclusive. This table shows that the great emphasis, 



always observed to fall on the first quinquennium when deaths 



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