Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from City of Winnipeg, Annual Report of the Department of Health: For the Year Ending 31st of December, 1918
The number of deaths in children under one year of age was 516, giving a mortality rate of per living births. This shows a decrease of points less than the past year, and, in View of conditions which existed during the year, is a highly satisfactory showing. It is the lowest rate we have on record, and is, I think a demonstration of what can be done by preventive measures. Ten it is borne in mind that in 1912 the rate was 199 and that Child Welfare work was undertaken by the Department in 1918, a reduction in the rate of 107 deaths per births in six years is a record worth while, and distinctly shows that the faithful work of the staff of the Babies' Milk Depot has borne abundant fruit. In fact, we are now at last able to take our place with communities with an infantile mortality rate of under 100, an ideal that a few years ago seemed very far away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
