eexvi Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. {N.S., XVII. 
The weight at birth of infants in India.—By Dagmar 
CURJEL 
Considerable in wat roth : being shown in different parts of India at the 
present eager srr su 1 t of nenareacd and Child Welfare, srl various 
sifeetions d r 
mother Say her child, ” The pan m gant f health in a community is 
now generally recognised, and the aim of all welfare work is to preserve 
the health of the mother and to ensure for each infant a healthy child- 
ho 
In v ew of the very large number of infants who die before the end 
of the first year in India, the following enquiry was undertaken with the 
object of determining the condition of developme nt as shown by weight, 
of the normal Indian infant at birth, For the purposes of the enquiry a 
abour ha mi 
spontaneously. The sae ay bir = 1849 normal infants were collected 
in — ie of India, and for comparison the weights ri birth of 
289 normal infants born in India of other than Indian parentag 
Re carr ary 
1) Records of the weights at birth of 1,849 normal Indian a 
representing many different castes and classes, show that the 
Indian infant has reached at the time of birth the aver see 
infants of othe parentage born in 
(3) There is no marked difference in ine a iS ie as shown by the 
average weight at birth of normal infants between Mussal- 
mans, Hindus and Indian Christians. 
‘4) The “erik Srp age of the Indian mother as compared with 
ropean races, does not adve pegs sn tg the development 
pres ee wei ight, vot her child at birth. 
(5) Since the normal Indian infant has péaehed a fair development 
show atic the average weights of 6°5 lb. at birth, the 
patton tbe thighs aa ality among such children is largely 
pease to unfavourable pov Ser tal condi tions, which are inti- 
tely connected with the environmental factors affecting 
the health of the conithtiisiey generally 
The difficulties in the cer SRbeas and use of vaccine 
lymph in the Madras Presidency:—-By M. Kusava Pat 
and T. N.S. Poot om 
Introductory. 
vaccination results in the Madras Pres idency during the last 
miler Boxe have been far from satisfactory. Seni’ institutes in India 
and Burma have been getting a case success of 3 _ ent and over, whilst 
in Madras the rate has been as low as 80 per 
Aim of the Paper. 
he aim of the present paper is to set forth th 1 factors that 
have contributed to the low seoe88 © ate. id pe placercboniga cites 
Climate. 
The climatic conditions obtainin 
gat the depot are unfavourable to 
lymph production. The comparatively high temperature of the districts 
