Exhibit C 79,33
The importance of the hereditary constitution (which he considers ^ 79-82
is dependent on soil and climate) as regards infant mortality v. Vogel
expresses in four maps of Bavaria (Figures 79-82;, to which he has fur
nished the following comments (contained in the pamphlet, “ Der Ortliche
Stand der Sâuglingsterblichkeit in Bayern,” Munich, Piloty and Loehle,
1911) : "The district of the highest infant mortality in Bavaria is
inhabited by a population of small height, small fitness for military
service, and high tuberculous mortality. The reverse holds good on
the whole for the district with a low mortality.Map of Bavaria.
Infant mortality in 1901.
Of each 100 living-born
there died during the
first year :
wm 10-20
ms 20-30 30-40Figure C 79.
I cannot suppress another objection to the usual way of proving the
—to my mind undoubted—influence of breast-feeding on the duration
of life in infancy. Why is the mortality of those children who have not
been suckled for a week so large ? Is it because they have not been
suckled, or because they have only lived altogether for less than a week ?
Or, again, to be able to be suckled for 40 or 50 weeks, one must have
lived for 40 or 50 weeks, but a child who has lived for 40 or 50
