... INFANT MORTALITY, and he considered that not only was the taking of children into public-houses detrimental to their health, but there were other contributory causes. There was the housing of the poor, and, in passing, he should like to say that in his ...

... INFANT MORTALITY Mr Deacon drew attention this high deathrate, and had a proposition to make. There were known ways of dealing wither preventing such high rate by teaching mothers or parents how to treat infants. thought the percentage rather big, especially ...

... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food , be exposed to the contamination ...

... INFANT MORTALITY, The deaths under one year of age, including two which took place at Bedford, have been 85, being 21-4 per cent of the entire number of deaths, and the infant deaths were in the proportion 130 to births. ...

... to utilise the information for securing greater care of infant life in the several urban populations. This fact gives additional interest to the recent marked decline in the rate of infant mortality, of which the Registrar-General’s returns afford abundant ...

... Births Act, as ho had not got all the information he would like. He would like say that in the Bedford Dural District the infant mortality was low. It was agreed that Dr. Parbury be allowed another month in which to complete his report. ...

... (620) were to the infant deaths (66) about as 1000 to 106. This is believed to be rather a crucial teat, and it is no unusual thing in districts considered healthy to find the proportion high 1000 to 116, 120, or more. The deaths of infants having been 66 ...

... HOW INFANTS' FOOD IS MADE. Much publie attention has lately been directed to the seriousness of infant mortality in this country. It is agreed that ells mortality is largely due to improper feeding. And since many mothers, especially when they are also ...

... • copy of thu latent Life Protection Act, and asked the Guardians to carefully peruse the RMS. —The CHAIRMAN acid the infant mortality of the Union was very small. The Act was directed against baby-farming, and be thought it did not apply to districts ...

... deaths all ages. oi persons per acre, has very little to with the causation of infant mortality. The relation indeed obtaining between density per acre and infant mortality is little more than a preliminary guidance to the inve iigator to direct his attention ...

... per in 19f».'i The deaths repi-dered for the year 3»>. giving death rate of per 1.000 . gainst 30.2 per 1.000 in 'Hie infant mortality was per 1,000 births (under yeas *.id). For 1905 the proportion was ot> per births. There were 8 oases cases of scarlet ...

... Paris, to cope with preventible infant mortality, Lord Robert Cecil, M.P., said that of the 120,000 infants who died every year in England, quite one-half could be saved proper measures for their welfare. There was, moreover, every reason to believe ...