130 ACS-INCIDENCE OF CAUSES OF INFANT MORTALITY 



Diseases of the Liver 176 



Peritonitis 179 



Others of this class (diseases of the mouth, diarrhoea, and enteri- 

 tis excluded) 106 



Total 4,205 



Diseases of the Genito-Urinary System 



Acute Nephritis 282 



Bright's Disease 343 



Others of this class 205 



Total 830 



Diseases of the Skin 



Gangrene 30 



Carbuncle 28 



Abscess 125 



Total 183 



Diseases of the Locomotor System 



Diseases of Bones 352 



Others of this class 10 



Total 362 



Violence 



Burns and Scalds 148 



Heat and Sunstroke 161 



Accidental Poisoning (including gas poisonings) 221 



Homicide 161 



Other External Violence (injury at birth and suffocation ex- 

 cluded) 265 



Total 956 



Summary 



Total under 1 year in Table 1 122,155 



Total in Table II 14,277 



Total 136,432 



Table I accounts for 226,289 deaths, of which number 122,155 

 occurred under the age of one year. Nearly one-third of all 

 deaths are accounted for in this table, and nearly nine-tenths 

 of the deaths under one year. 



In the first four entries of Table I, we see in operation the 

 pitiful but necessary elimination of the unfit. It is rapidly ac- 

 complished, but not too rapidly ; for thirty years may pass before 

 the last case of congenital malformation of the heart is disposed 

 of. Not all the unfit are counted under the four titles, prematur- 

 ity, congenital debility, injuries sustained at birth, and malforma- 

 tions. Congenital syphilis belongs in this class. With this ad- 

 dition we shall have separated 43,230 deaths of infants whose 



