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INFANT MORTALITY'S URGENT CALL FOR ACTION 



TABLE VII 



A Review of the Slowly But Surely Increasing: Waste of Infant 

 Life in the Last Ten Years Due to the Four Principal Causes 

 of Infant Mortality, to wit; Diarrhoea and Enteritis, Prema- 

 ture Birth, Congenital Debility and Malformations, and the 

 Annual Ratios of Deaths from these Causes to the Total Num- 

 ber of Deaths Under Age 1 in the Registration Area of the 

 United States, as Recorded in the Annual Mortality Statistics 

 of the Bureau of the Census for the Decade, 19OO-19O9 



