TY  - JOUR
T1  - MEdical news
Y1  - 1909/08/21
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02550080042010
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 638
EP  - 642
VL  - LIII
IS  - 8
N2  - ILLINOIS 
    ChicagoInfantile Mortality. 
    —The total deaths of infants under I year of age during the past week jumped from 142 to 194. an increase of 52 over the preceding week, and an excess of 13 over the corresponding week of last year. Gastrointestinal disorders are accountable for 185 deaths, or more than 31 per cent. of the total for the week from all causes; 167 of these 185 deaths were among children under 2 years of age. This record exceeds the preceding week by 39, and is 23 higher than the corresponding week of last year. Notwithstanding these increases, the general death rate was more than 4 per cent. lower than the August average and 6.5 per cent. below the rate of the corresponding week of 1908.MARYLAND 
    BaltimoreSmallpox on Steamship. 
    —The North German Lloyd steamship Main was delayed at quarantine August 10 by the discovery of a
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02550080042010
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550080042010
ER  -