... of age die annually, and the idea of the hospital is to protect the infants born to poor parents from exposure to cold, impure food and other ills which tend to increase infant mortality. All of this will help the offspring of the poor to survive, whether ...

... and the boom system are discussed in relation to infant mortality. The 'writer of the article begins with the statement that, when • parents are questioned about the large 'pereentage of infants that die in a particular household, the reply usually ...

... London Daily News says Briefly everything is falling—the death rats, the marriage rate, the birth rate, the percentage of infant mortality. The birth rate, at 27.2 per thousand, shows a fall of 0.7 per thousand upon the year preceding, and is the lowest on ...

... those of infants, the oldest of whom was only three weeks. The committee, therefore, recommended, amongst other things that the Government take steps to have midwives instructed in the aseptic or antiseptic dressing of navels of new-born infants. The Colonial ...

... the mother or the guardian of each child that has made satishotory progress. The object of the schema is to reduce the infant mortality. ...

... A School for Mothers. At Ghent a school for mothers has hrought down infant mortality from 350 per 1000 to 40 per 1000. The movement at Clhent has in connection with it a dispensary, a friendly society, a milk depilt, and systems of visiting and foster ...

... steps will be taken for diplomatic action. The same right bonoarablelgentleman, presiding at the National Conference on Infant Mortality, is repotted to have attributed the heavy death-rate to the use of canned meats, which be considered unnatural food, ...

... about a high infant mortality is SO much bunkum and pretence. High WS the infant mortality is, our population is not declining. In this island we are still overcrowded. In view of this fact, the solicitude of the Board of Health for infants ...

... more so. Under proper management European children did very well in tropical colonies, in the most unhealthy of which infant mortality was lower than in some districts of Europe. The belief, again, that white men could not labor in the tropics was disproved ...

... of the mortality arises from infant mortality? Dr. HUNCH : Yee. Last year was the first year in which infant mortality was collected. and it was found to be 35 per cent, of the total deaths. Sir DAVID BARBOUR : What age do you reckon as an ...

... think a signal injitetice has been done iu this appointment Infant Mortality in Port-of-Spain. At i meeting of the Trinidad Board of Health held on tbe 3rd inst., report on infint mortality we submitted by Dr. J. R. Dickson, assistant Medical Officer ...

... state of some of the wretched dwellings in which the people have to live, or the effect of exposure during I the stoem, infant mortality as well as adult has increased very high in all the parishes. We have heard of a family of 7 children at St, George's ...