THIS NUMBER CONTAINS PAPERS READ AT THE FIRST BIEN- 

 NIAL MEETING OF THE FAR EASTERN ASSOCIATION OF TROPICAL 

 MEDICINE, HELD AT MANILA, MARCH 5 TO 14, 1910. 



THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



B. Medical Sciences 



Vol. V JULY, 1910 No. 2 



STUDIES ON INFANT MORTALITY. 1 



By Allan J. McLaughlin - and Vernon L. Andrews. 3 



The death rate among Filipinos in Manila, as shown below, is excessive 

 compared with that of other nationalities, after making due allowance for 

 the higher birth rate, greater proportion of children, and other factors. 



Table I. — Death rate in Manila by nationalities, per thousand, during the year 



1909. 



Spaniards 12.05 



Americans 13.27 



Other Occidentals 14.32 



Chinese 16.64 



Filipinos 47.65 



This enormous death rate is due to the high mortality of children. Of 

 9,307 deaths among the Filipino population, 6,041, or 64.9 per cent, 

 were of children under 5 years of age, and 4,542, or 48.8 per cent, were 

 of infants under 1 year of age. 



Table II. — Rate of infant mortality to total number of deaths. 



Total number of deaths, all ages 9,307 



Total number of deaths under 5 years 6,041 



Total number of deaths under 1 year 4,542 



Rate of deaths under 1 year to total number, per 

 cent 48.8 



1 Read at the First Biennial Meeting of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical 

 Medicine, March 9, 1910. 



■ Passed Assistant Surgeon. United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital 

 Service; Assistant Director of Health for the Philippine Islands; and assistant 

 professor of Hygiene, Philippine Medical School. 



3 Assistant, Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, and Assistant Professor of 

 bacteriology and pathology, Philippine Medical School. 



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