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Excerpt from Maternity and Infant Care in a Mountain County in Georgia Infant mortality was the first subject chosen for field investigation after the bureau's establishment in 1912. Little information touching the problem was available at the time, although an appalling annual loss of young life was indicated by estimates for the Nation, based upon meager data. To ascertain the facts, studies were commenced and have since been carried forward in American cities of diverse characteristics, and in 1916 a series of surveys of maternity care and child welfare in rural regions typical of various sections of the United States was begun. The approach to the problem was necessarily somewhat different in town and country. In the cities fairly complete records of births and deaths permitted a measurement by infant mortality rates of the effect of various conditions upon the mortality under 1 year of age. The relation between existing conditions and infant mortality could not be shown with such precision for the rural areas owing to the careless accountancy of births and infant losses. The rural studies, therefore, have been developed with a view to showing the environ ment, opportunities, and needs of the country mother and. Child, rather than to connect various factors with the infant mortality rate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.