Infant Mortality in New York City

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 4, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 39.

Infant Mortality in New York City

Official figures given out concerning the infant mortality in New York City are appalling. The Bureau of Municipal Research announces that in the first week of June, twenty per cent more infants under one year of age died than in the same week last year, the figures being 225 in 1909, 272 in 1910. The excess has increasingly persisted during every week since. During the last week the comparison in the number of deaths over the same week last year was over forty-two per cent — 399 in 1909 to 568 in 1910. Physicians seem to be at a loss to understand this surprising increase.