... riaing young eountryman:Dr Jams read, on the 20th October, before the Britieli Guiana Medical Assoeitition. a paper on Infant Mortality viewed from the records of the Maternity Ward of Georgetown Hospital • a subject of near i n terest for the whole W ...

... parasite which nadir the oomprehessive term Worms is accountable, as Dr. Gray points out, for the abnormally large infant mortality among our peasantry. The prospective saving of human life which would pea bably result from a discovery is . surely worth ...

... score of insalubrity. The more so, when we consider the numerous causes in operation in this Colony to raise the rate of infant mortality which in the year under review, was nearly 35 per cent of the total deaths. Considering also the utterly careless way ...

... The rate is be. he !wenn* of the previous years. The rats of infant mortality has risen beyond the record of any former period, having -boen 3t.07, orover one-third of the total mortality of the year. If we allow that one half of this number of deaths ...

... their mothers were toiling hard for their exist- Oh, it is indeed cruel I. No wonder there is such an abnormal rate of infant mortality. I am afraid, Sir, that lam drifting away from the point at issue, I therefore come back to it. The Catitries Town Board ...

... creche at which the infants, not only of mothers sick in hospital, but of mothers obliged to leave home to work for a living, could be cared for during their absence. Both these things would conduce to keep down our abnormal infant mortality. But we think the ...

... being drained of their considerable Over and over again has the Pe ,;.istrar General point d out that this excessive infant mortality was due to the ign mince of mothers a.s to the suitable vality of food, and as to the manner of feeding very young children ...

... found itL the Square will be captured. Da. Stanley Branch, Assistant Colonial Surgeon, make this timely auggostion : This infant mortality to the dietridt tiontl:ines to be high. This is hi ft great measure duo to the fauity midw&ry practised by the old women ...

... annual death-rate of 24 per thousand of the population. When is made for the abnormal Liflato.a of this rate by an examssive infant ne.), talky, due to the igaoraace and carcleasucris of mothers in the lower cl43ses, it will seen that, if the deutb-rate ...

... family polished on the awful night. Cherie- 0' Ganyer struck a Llliag 'on on while in the act of &w--iig his wlf3 aivl his infant doughty It wee frem tho death clasp of an already (sold corpse that they released the young , mother wounded, nail from ...