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favourable rate of mortality among infants. Throughout
Scotland generally the infant mortality rate is about 120
per 1,000 births, while in England it is much higher.
The low infantile mortality in the Upper Ward is, no
doubt, due in great measure to the greater care exercised
by the mothers in feeding and nursing - their occupations,
as a rule, permitting them to devote much more care
and attention to their children than mothers living in
large manufacturing towns where female labour is so
largely employed are able to do.
In Carmichael, Dolphinton, Dunsyre, Lamington, Sym-
ington, and Walston parishes no deaths of infants under
1 year were registered.
Among children between 1 and 5 years of age 78 deaths
took place, which, with 134 deaths under 1 year, give a
total of 212 deaths in children under 5 years, or 30 per
cent. of the total mortality.
Forty-seven (47) deaths were in persons between 5 and
15 years; 40 between 15 and 25; 134 between 25 and 60;
and 269, a large proportion of the total, in persons over 60
years of age.

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