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��THE SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY

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YEAR

Dbath Rates fbom Iupobtant Causes of Death in the Beoistration Abea of the

United States : 1900-1912.

��of pleasure and the like. But another explanation may be urged. If we pre- serve the lives of hundreds of thousands of infants who can not be properly nursed by their mothers and of hun- dreds of thousands of young people of inferior constitution who would previ- ously have succumbed to tuberculosis, we have in the population between forty and sixty a large proportion of people less vigorous than those who would have survived harsher conditions. It is not

��surprising if they have a higher mor- tality.

WILLIAM BAMS AY AND BAPHAEL MELDOLA

The richness of England in men of scientific distinction is shown by the fact that almost every month it is nec- essary to record the deaths of those who have contributed in important measure to the advancement of science. It may be feared that the even more

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