... of the Poor to take immediate steps to check the existing excesses and needless mortality amongst Ypung and helpless children. The first great cause of infant mortality, against which all others sink into insig. nificance, is put in a nutshell: Brought ...

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... NOTES OF THE DAY. INFANT MORTALITY IN FACTORIES. The Sanitary Congress has this week discussed various important questions relating to the welfare of the people, and the disclosures of Dr. Reid concerning infant mortality ought to have the effrect of ...

... where people of all ages and both sexes are huddled together without any regard to the com- mon decencies of life. The infant mortality is placed as high as fifty per cent., while those who survive their earlier trials grow up without even the rudiments ...

... leakages prevented. INFANT MORTALITY. Dr. Reid (Staffordshire), medical officer of health, dealt with the influence which the practice of young mothers engaged ii factory work had in maintaining the excessively high infant mortality rates of many of our ...

... Continuing their proceedings at Black-pool yesterday, the Public Health Congress at the various meetings discussed drainage, infant mortality, atchoel inspection, and the smoke nuisance. A young mnan named Stuart, otherwise Stewart, was charged yesterday at Bow- ...

... with a considerable proportion of married women ocoupied, the infant mortality rates vary irre- tolarly. To arrive at the truth with regard to the relation between high rates of infant mortality and industrial ?? of mothers, it would be ueces. sary for the ...

... contrasted the ostentatioous wealth to be found there with the squalid misery and degradation of the luni side, where the infant mortality reiched sixty- three per thousand. He was so struck with the con- trast that he lashed them in a speech of his as he ...

... increase of infant mortality, he could not say it haid been proved to his satisfaction that the chief cause was the employment of the mothers in factories The Registrar-General's return for twenty-eight large towns showed an increase in mortality between ...

... days old. It seemed a weorder- Erlly hearty child, but did not make any proyresa.-Dr. Angus Kennedy said that Withough infant mortality at the present time was high, there was no reason why, tad the child more vitality, it should have died. ckhilld aid ...

... Manchester, LivePoo, Birmingham, Leeds, Shefield, Huil, and Salford. Another column of figures sets forth the rates of infant mortality and the daiths feua various diseases. The nember of deaths in the admtiniestrive coanty od Lou- -dea from thue rncipsa ...

... are gathered in and the door shut, shat one witnesses cannot be described. One iteed not wonder at the prevalence of infant mort-ality. Insteliecs innuoerable might be givon thit litlve come under my notice where tho grossest licentiousness has bsen found ...