... INFANT MORTALITY paper on this subject, which was read before the Royal Statistical Society, last week, Dr. Ilf.iH Jones, sheds a lur. l li;dit the kind of treatment which many children receive at the hands of their parents, and which largely conduces ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN RUSSIA. Odessa correspondent telegraphs: The Kievsko Slovo, quoting from a medical census receutly completed, states that the mortality among infants up to one year of age 50 Russian govern' ments is 35 per cent. some governments, ...

... BRITISH MEDICAL MEN AND INFANT MORTALITY. DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY. deputation from the Bristol Medical Association to-day waited upon Mr. Asquith ta urge the necessity for legislation with a view lessening infant mortality by preventing mothers ...

... The Chief Cause Infant*,' Mortality is at your doorsteps. If you love your children you will not allow it to come auy ne irer. Tuberculosis is responsible for more infants' deaths than most other diseases, and the germs of Tuberculosis are brought to ...

... employment of women. Mr. M.P., presided. Or. Tatham, the Medical Officer of Health for Manchester, said that the rate of infant mortality per 1,000 children born was in Preston 220 ; Blackburn, 191 ; Sal ford, 183; Manchester, 178 ; and Oldham, 171. The principal ...

... to married women working in factories cause high infant mortality. Bad and insufficient food, exposure cold and wet. and insufficient clothing, are not such active causes of disease and death in Infants, as smells from drains and closet*, and fool air ...

... urged that the use of tinned separated milk was not only worthless but injurious for children, and seriously increased infant mortality. Mr. Long in reply could not promise in his Food and Drugs Bill to compel thet words unsuitable for children or adults ...

... Lecture Hall. Among the papers read was one by Dr. George Reid, Medical Officer of the Staffordshire County Counoil, infant mortality and the employment of married women in factories, end in the course of the subsequent dieeuesion the President suggested ...

... it was 312 years. The 6gures relating to infantile mortality are not pleasant reading, there having been during tho year no fewer than 470 deaths of children under one year of age. The infant mortality was 167 6 par 1,000 births registered. This rate was ...

... buildings who were removed to hospitals, was 16 49 per 1,000, which is 0'96 per 1,000 below the averag* London. The infant mortality was 126 57 in each 1,000 births, or 1474 below that of London. The actual number of births and deaths are from returns ...

... year. The infant mortality m Derby was 10 per 1,000 births less than that which prevailed in the aggregate the large English towns, the rate in being among the lowest recorded those towns; while in the other towns the lowest infant mortalities were 10S ...

... was the highest infant mortality recorded during tho past three years, while tho lowest proportion occurred in the March quarter of 1891, and reached only 112 per 1,000 births. In the thirtythree towns last quarter the infant mortality averaged 115 per ...