The Management and Medical Treatment of Children in India Second Edition Being the Eighth Edition of Goodeve’s “Hints on the Management of Children in India”

In doing so it will not be difficult to demonstrate the frightful results of bad management on the one hand and the extremely favourable results of good management on the other.in the hope that the knowledge will stimlate the energies of parents in the right direction Object of chapter."INFANT MORTALITY IN INDIA. [...] A writer in the Calcutta Review (1866) observes The mortality among soldiers' children of pure European race more than trebles that frightful death-rate which prevails among the infants df the poor at home." The editor of the British Medical Journal (1878) thus contrasts the mortality of the soldier's child in India with that of children of the same ago in London :— Deaths per 1 000 Under 1 yea [...] Of the remaining 49 how few in all probability will grow to manhood ! Hence we see that whether we take 100 children imported from England born of healthy parents or 100 children born of the same parents within the first year of their arrival in India still the melancholy fact remains the same." The same writer quotes the following table exhibiting the respective ages of the survivors of 261 [...] But though dirt in Calcutta plays its usual part in enhancing the mortality in the more filthy localities the actual death-rate is but slightly in excess of that of the cleaner places ; and the proportion of deaths aanong the various races is maintained without variation in all localities proving that to the domestic treatment of the infants the terrible result is really due and not primarily o [...] But the liver itself is so to speak working under difficulties ; hence we see how essential it is to adopt a simplicity of diet and to attend to the state of the bowels these being the most potent though the easiest means of preserving the healthy action of the liver the derangements of which need not actually amount to disease to work profound harm.