REMEDIAL THEORIES AND EXPERIMENTS 



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The year before the establishment of the infants' 

 milk depot the total number of children under five 

 years of age dying during the months of July and Au- 

 gust was 202, but the number during the same period 

 of 1897 was 107. But if we take the average of 

 July-August deaths for the nine-year period, 1888. 

 to 1896, we find the number of deaths to be consid- 

 erably higher than in 1896, the number being 222, 

 Now, whether we compare the 107 deaths recorded in 

 1897 with the number recorded during the same period 

 in the year preceding it, or with the average number 



