286 Statistical Notes on tlie Influence of Education in Egypt 
TABLE III. 
Infantile Mortality. Persons per House and Education. 
Town 
Infantile 
Mortality 
per 100 births 
Alale Literacy 
per 100 of 
population 
! choliirs 
per 100 of 
population 
Persons 
per 
House 
Cairo 
32-9 
28-03 
6-12 
4-62 
Alexandria 
26-9 
30-09 
3-41 
8-43 
Daniietta 
18-1 
7-06 
1-89 
6-96 
Port Said 
21-0 
24-13 
2-64 
4-14 
Ismailia ... 
16-0 
28-05 
1-22 
4-10 
Suez 
2B-9 
25-74 
0-64 
3-85 
Benha 
29-6 
20-54 
4-87 
5-47 
Zagazig ... 
27-9 
25-67 
6-47 
6-07 
Tantah ... 
29-6 
25-62 
9-45 
5-18 
Maiisoi'ah 
21 -4 
26-77 
6-20 
4-60 
Chibine El Kom 
16-1 
18-71 
5-10 
4-92 
Dainanhur 
27-5 
19-54 
3-55 
7-27 
Guizeh ... 
35-6 
19-23 
11-31 
6-12 
Fayoum ... 
40-1 
15-55 
4-78 
9-34 
Berii Suef 
37-1 
21-15 
7-19 
5-11 
Minia 
38-2 
21 -96 
8-89 
4-96 
Assiut 
33-6 
20-92 
11-48 
6-00 
Sohag 
29-0 
22-37 
5-58 
6-15 
Kena 
37-4 
16-76 
4-80 
5-14 
Assuau ... 
41-1 
21-31 
5-78 
4-09 
It will be clear from these results that there is no significant relation between the 
literacy of the male population and infantile mortality. There is also no significant 
relation between the number of persons to a house and the number of scholars, 
i.e. it does not appear to be the more crowded towns which have the largest 
percentage of scholars to the population ; Alexandria and Daniietta, for example, 
have considerably more than the mean number of persons to the house and 
relatively few scholars. On the other hand a larger number of literates marks 
less crowding. Crowding and infantile mortality are slightly related, but con- 
sidering the probable error, not with definite significance*. 
While literacy has no relation to the infantile deathrate, it is noteworthy 
that there is a significant correlation (+ "oSOQ + '1278) between the number of 
scholars and the infantile deathrate, which is greater tvhere there is more education. 
Now this either suggests that many scholars mean large families and large 
families correspond to increased infantile mortality, which is usual, or that the 
towns in which there are the classes who educate their children have a higher 
infantile deathrate. The only means, and those inadequate, of testing the first 
* This agrees with the result for overcrowding and infantile mortality in English manufacturing 
towns, where the correlation is very small and sometimes has one sign and sometimes the other. 
