Infectious morbidity of children up to 7 years of age in relation to the season of their birth

: The total morbidity in infectious diseases and morbidity in the main groups of infections and in individual nosological forms among 1174 children born in 1971-1972 during the first 7 years of their life were studied. The morbidity rates noted among the children during the first and second six-month periods of their life were found to be related to the season when they were born, and the morbidity level in the first year of their life greatly determined morbidity in all subsequent years.