"Infant mortality" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Infant mortality rate: The number of deaths to infants under one year old in a given year per l,000 live births occurring ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... looking after her own. I've heard sentimentalists sing about the strength that lies in the soil. But, oh, pioneers, you know what you know! In your secret heart of hearts you remember the lonely hours, the lonely years, the lonely graves! For in the matter of infant mortality alone, prairie life shows a record shocking to read. We are making that better, it is true, with our district nursing and our motherhood clubs and our rural phones and our organized letting in of light and passing on of knowledge. We are not so overburdened as those nobler women who went before us. ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer |
