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INFANT MORTALITY'S URGENT CALL FOR ACTION 



RECAPITULATION 



*Returns for one or more years wanting, and averages have been calculated 

 on basis of returns for other years of period in question. 



JFigures represent estimates for periods for which no returns were avail- 

 able, estimate in each case being average of actual returns for balance of 

 entire twenty-five year period. 



fComputed by division of totals for all countries represented in table by 

 number of countries in question. 



Above table has been compiled in part from Table III, in Phelps' "A Statistical 

 Study of Infant Mortality," in the Quarterly Publications of the American Sta- 

 tistical Association, New Series, No. 83 (Vol. XI), September, 1908, and data 

 for years 1906-8 have been compiled from Seventy-First Annual Report of the 

 Registrar-General for England and Wales (p. Ixvii). 



TABLE II 



A Comparison for the Last Decade of Deaths Under 1 Year, Be- 

 tween 1 and 5 Years, Under 5 Years, and all Over 1 Year 

 with the Total Number of Deaths at all Ages in the Regis- 

 tration Area of the United States, and the Ratios of Deaths 

 in Bach of these Age-Groups to the Total Number of Deaths at 

 all Ages, as Shown by the Annual Mortality Statistics of the 

 Bureau of the Census for the Ten Years, 19OO-19O9 



