... INFANT MORTALITY HIGH. THE FIRST ANNUAL REPORT Of Dr J. O'Heeffe wig formally promoted at the Wt meeting of the Council. It reads aa follovia, the statistical tehleo being omitted : Mr Chairman and Gentlemen,—l have pleasure in submitting yrs my drat ...

... REMEMBER THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL! It had been proved flat alcohol in the parent wu re, possible for much infant mortality, and mental deficiency was also due to it. An it quiry into one hundred consecutive cases of mental deficiency at a epoeial school ...

... death rate satisfactory. The decrease in the infant mortality during the period covered by this report is extremely gratifying; only 19 children died before reaching one year of age, , giving a rate of mortality per 1000 births of 1061. This appears as though ...

... question there was the children. He thanked God that they were hearing Om cry of the children and stemming the tide of infant mortality. Socialism was a great international movement. He stood there neither as • Socialist, a Liberal, nor a Con, ',restive ...

... Newcastle had regulations in force and Gateshead bad not, infant mortality in Newcastle was doable that in Gataihead. As a practical man, he (Mr Stratton) thought there won more risk of infant mortality from lack of milk than from a good supply of milk, bacteria ...

... were of infants osder 12 months old, and the c 'editions that caused so many deaths must affect those who survived. Drink was not the solo cause; improper feeding, insanitary environment, and the occupations of mothers assisted infant mortality. If thousands ...

... stupendous number of convictions there was the enormous amount of secret drinking leading to other attendant evils, including infant mortality, which was a very tenons thing. She wished that the Bill dealt with intemperance among women, as well as the prevention ...

... socially, to induce mothers of all ranks and clawed to nurse their infants. That is the sure way to reduce infantile mortality, for it has been calculated that of every 1,000 infants under three months naturally fed on breast milk alone, 20 will die of ...

... broncho-pneumonia among children has been quite epidemic. and I am afraid will have a disastrous effeot on the rate of infant mortality in the coming annual report. IMOKZ 244111ANCIL. It was resolved that the Surveyor ec e Messrs Sandbrook and Dawe with ...

... the past six years t..e infantile mortality averaged 7ge, as compered with Birmingham's 170 per thousand births during the same period. . . . It has been stated by the most eminent authorities that the rate of mortality amongst infanta ought not to exceed ...

... low a rate, notwithstanding the high infantile mortality ; bet it cannot be expected to remain at that low figure anima a reduction of the mortality among infants is secured. There were $6 deaths of infants under one year of age, chiefly from premature ...

... high. The Inspector said it was chiefly infantile mortality. The Chairman : That is where the medical woman comes in to watch the sanitation of every house. We shall get a great reduction ID the infant death rate until we have that doable system in operation ...