| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Causes of the high infant mortality from the Taisho to Pre-war Showa eras have been pursued on the basis of rural women’s labor load, infant rearing, and maternal and infant health. Of the results obtained in this project, the following two points deserve particular emphasis. The first is that rural mothers began to give their babies formula milk to make up for the lack of breast milk, intake of which was still as insufficient in the beginning of the pre-war Showa era as it was in the Taisho era owing to low nursing frequency. The second is that increasing intake of formula milk prevented infants malnutrition and could have caused the drastic decline of infant mortality in the Pre-war Showa era.
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