[Premature Death Problems of the Meiji Emperor's Infants, According to the Two Submissions of 1883 and 1888].

Abstract

The Meiji Emperor had fifteen children; five princes and ten princesses, but ten of them died of a meningitis-like disease in their infancy. People were concerned about the circumstances in which the lineage of the emperor's family was in a critical situation. They investigated the conditions regarding the children's upbringing and reported on the matter to higher officials in 1883 and 1888. But the author concludes that conditions did not change for the better because of those efforts.