RT Journal
T1 SOzialhygiene im säuglings- und kleinkindesalter.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD May 18
VO 92
IS 20
SP 1700
OP 1701
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700460056031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700460056031
AB In this thoughtful and conveniently arranged volume, the author surveys briefly and concisely the problems of morbidity and mortality in the various periods of childhood. He also gives an account of the valuable prophylactic measures that may be employed to minimize the toll of sickness and death during the early period of life. In the first division of the book he treats of the new-born period and considers in some detail the various diseases and accidents common to this period of life. Among other things he points out that neonatal mortality cannot be influenced by efforts of infant welfare organizations and comes to the conclusion, which is generally accepted throughout the civilized world, that on account of improvement in general hygiene and of the better protection afforded to older infants, the mortality is diminished but the death rate among the new-born remains stationary. He sees from this that further reduction