Children’s Hospital at Pendleberry that the death rate of infants 
under one year during the decade ending 1903 was 183.8 in Manchester 
and 198.3 in Salford. 
The following statistics from various countries are along the same 
lines : 
Country. 
General mortal- 
ity — Deaths to 
1,000 living; aver- 
age annual rate in 
10 y ears ( 1895-1 904 ) . 
Country. 
Infantile mortal- 
ity — Deaths of 
children under 1 
year to 1,000 births 
— average annual 
Rate in 10 years 
(1895-1904) . 
a 33.6 
Chile 
b 326 
Chile 
28.8 
Russia (European) 
o268 
27.8 
Austria 1 i 
c224 
27.3 
Roumania 
r?218 
Ceylon 
26.8 
Hungary 
216 
26.8 
Prussia 
197 
25.2 
Spaix^ 
e 182 
Servia 
23.9 
Jamaica 
176 
Bulgaria . 
23.9 
Italy 
170 
Italy 
22.7 
Ceylon ] 
169 
Jamaica 
22.4 
Belgium 
156 
German Empire 
20.8 
France 
153 
Prussia 
20.5 
Servia 
154 
Japan 
b 20. 5 
Japan 
ol51 
France 
20.4 
England and Wales 
150 
Finland . 
18.7 
The Netherlands . . . 
147 
Switzerland 
18.1 
Western Australia ' 
147 
Ireland 
18.0 
Bulgaria 
b 144 
Belgium 
17.8 
Switzerland 
142 
Scotland 
17.8 
Finland 
134 
England and Wales 
17.2 
Denmark 
127 
The Netherlands 
17.0 
Scotland 
126 
Denmark 
15.8 
New South Wales 
108 
Sweden 
15.8 
Victoria 
105 
Norway 
15.1 
Ireland 
103 
Western Australia 
14.6 
South Australia 
102 
Victoria 
13.3 
Qeeensland : 
101 
Tasmania 
11.8 
Sweden 
&98 
Queensland 
11.8 | 
Tasmania 
94 
New South Wales 
11.7 
Norway. 
90 
South Australia 
11.5 
New Zealand 
79 
New Zealand 
9.8 
• 
“Average for 10 years (1892-1901). d Average for 10 years (1890-1899). 
6 Average for 10 years (1894-1903). “Average for 5 years (1900-1904). 
“Average for 8 years (1895-1902). 
Balestre and St. Joseph, in a study of mortality in early infancy 
in the urban population of France from 1892 to 1897, give a mass of 
valuable data bearing on the appalling' annual toll exacted from 
the infant population of France — a loss of life which in conjunction 
with the unusually low birth rate in France has given the question 
of infantile mortality in that country a national importance. 
