MORTALITY AND MORALITY

[摘要] AS REPORTED by James Joyce, the following explanations of the problem of infant mortality were advanced by the house staff of a Dublin Maternity Hospital:Mr. M. Mulligan (Hyg. et Eng. Doc.) blames the sanitary conditions. . . . These factors, he alleges, and the revolting spectacles offered by our streets hideous publicity posters, . . . mutilated soldiers and sailors . . . paranoic bachelors and unfructified duennas . . . were responsible for any and every falling off in the calibre of the race. Kalipedia, he prophesied, would soon be generally adopted. . . . Mr. J. Crotthers (Disc. Bacc.) attributes some of these demises to abdominal trauma in the case of women workers subjected to heavy labours . . . but by far the vast majority to neglect, private or official. . . .

[学科分类] 儿科学