Some Observations on the Infant Mortality in Khulna District

A peculiarity that may be noted in the case of the Khulna District is that, though it is far less malarious than other districts in Bengal, such as Burdwan, Jessore, Hooghly, Nadia, etc., and, as a rule, has a smaller adult mortality than those districts, yet, from the point of view of infant mortality, it takes a higher place than most. In this respect Khulna resembles Bankura district. As regards infant mortality, Khulna is sometimes as high as third in the list, and same of the thanas of Khulna district, such as Assasuni, showed the highest infant mortality in the whole of Bengal. The fact that infant mortality is pretty high in this district will be seen from Chart A. The comparative infant mortality in the different thanas will be seen from the graphic