... Quarter of a Century Ago. Local History from the Files of the Herald. iazotarszieDAS A% NEWSPAPEJL Bangor Council and Infant Mortality. SHARP DISCUSSION. Proposed Adoption of the New Act. ...

... TNB CHILD. The reduction of our high infant mortality is a matter with which every right-minded person must feel greatly concerned. The child in the mothers arms appeals to the deepest instincts of hnnianity. It is truly cause for sorrow and shame that ...

... lecture on the national importance of the reduction of child mortality was given by the principal medical officer of the English Local Government Board. Dr. Newshohne. He said that high infant mortality sins often attributable to inexcusable municipal neglect ...

... object of this Act was to keep down infant mortality. He did not know whether there was much of this in Bangor, but seeing they had a maternity nurse, it surely would be worth the cost of a few postcards if one infant's life were saved in five years. Mr ...

... • * * The Birmingham niedieal officer in his an- Phial report states that infant mortality in Kilning - 11am is far ton high, and he attri- Lt.* it partly to women employment. l'ererty arising from the smallness of the I. ,, d.ands' earnings was the maia ...

... however, the results were apparent, as in the lowering of the rate of infant mortality. She could mention one town in France where preventive measures reduced the infant mortality in a few yeah from 25 per cent to nil. The pork of preventive medicine ...

... Health Association of Ireland. which has in view • threefold object. Firstly, to reduce the mortality front consumption; seetindly. to reduce infant mortality in the larger towns; and thirdly, to improve the hygienic condition of the notional 'Ohio's ...

... attention out of proportion to their value. The prevalent ignorance in regard to child life is one of the chief causes of infant mortality, and not until this ignorance is removed, and the duties and responsibilities of motherhood are more fully recognised ...

... WRNS ON INFANT MORTALITY. Mr. John Burns, as president of the Nctional Conference on Infamt Mortality. in I.oetlon, delivered an address, and said great strides been made recently both by public opinion ..ind by the Government in protecting infant life. ...

... which Sir John Byers had treated the subject. She had noted all that had been said about sanitation consumption, and infant mortality, and she felt there was only one way i nwhich they could ocobct the evils of which they complained—that was by arousing ...

... good of the protected themeless. For it is probable that not only will the more salubrious climate check the rate of infant mortality, but that, being more get-at-able, it may be possible to impose three sanitary rules upon the Boom women which, we are ...

... part in politics. niany &oriel questions would certainly be dealt with which are at present neglected. The great evil of infant mortality, tho problems of the health of mothers and children among the poorer chime*, and the temperance question may be mentioned ...