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these conditions are rather to he ranged under the sub-title 
of domestic arrangements than as pertaining to the ordinary 
sanitary work of local authorities. It is less likely than 
adult mortality to be at once affected by the more common 
mechanical improvements of districts, such as improved 
sewage and good water supply; and it requires for its 
amelioration better house accommodation, more efficient 
house drainage, a freer supply of pure air, cleanliness, a 
proper supply of suitable sustenance, and adequate protec- 
tion against infection. 
It cannot be said that these points have yet received 
full attention from the sanitary administrators of the country, 
and hence the death register of infants can hardly be quoted 
as evidence of their failure. 
On the other hand, children are more exposed than adults 
to the already mentioned causes of ill-health ; they are more 
directly affected by over-crowding, and they are the first 
to feel the effects of the neglect arising from intemperance. 
This indirect consequence of the abuse of alcohol is probably 
still more fatal than its direct influence. 
It is probable that the mode of feeding young children, 
especially in the manufacturing districts, is becoming less 
and less adequate to their needs. 
The inquiries made by Dr. Ferguson of Bolton, and others, 
show that tea and many other forms of experimental foods 
are now tried upon children, instead of the milk that was 
formerly more easily procured, and that the result is a 
gradual falling off in the physical power of our manufactu- 
ring populations. 
There can then be no doubt that the adverse iufluences 
bearing upon infant life have been increasing in intensity 
