... ON INFANT MORTALITY. Ohl pile it on, what boots it to repeat How births and deaths unpleasaatly do meet? Pallet:Mid to-day, to-morrow shoves What careless nursing does for tiny feet. Infaat mortality in Merkinek high Should make He Rosier Member heave ...

... important towns. Dr Macdonald—Perth haft not adopted it, as the death-rate is below the hundred. Ex-Provost Macbean The infant mortality in a town with the healthy surroundings of Inverness is higher than it ought to be. I am convinced that if we adoot this ...

... that they should deal with the various districts in the town in which the rate of mortality was the greatest. At the time the proposal was made they had an infant mortality return for the various districts, in which the Merkinch figured with 201.9 per thousand ...

... attention. He would also, if returned as their representative at the Council Board, look into the very serious matter of infant mortality. He thanked them for the excellent hearing they had given him—(applause). Thereafter several of thine present spoke, ...

... infinitely more importance than the saving of the pockets of well-todo proprietors. And still we wonder at the amount of infant mortality. • • • The never-ending topic, of a weekly halfholiday is again to tho front, and I think I echo the feeling of three-fourths ...

... for solution are the evil, which beset our body politic at home --(hear. hear). Drunkenness, depopulation, kid housing, infant mortality, ignorancethe whole lot of them, all of them within the range of legislation are all of them demanding methods of treatment—l ...

... thing. me made n the report to the efforts that the =Meg in the capacity of ladies' 3 to redo* the very high rats of infant mortality in' the burgh. The facts laid before the Town Council at a recent meeting by Bailie Alet. Fraser, the convener of the ...

... the medical officership of Dr Ogilvie Great he found that they gave credit to that gentleman for reducing the rate of infant mortality thus-113 in 1901, 114 in 1902, and 82 in 1903. They were told that in the Merkinch district the death rate among infanta ...

... trap and cant has increased in politics in New Zealand since women were enfranchised. He does not mention, however, that infant mortality and intemperance has enormously decreased since women had the vote there; nor that the sweated woman worker is now a ...

... submitted facts to prove the concomitants of overcrowding and congestion—namely, a high general deathrate and lamentable infant mortality. The Committee drew up a statement for presentation to the Local Government Board. A subcommittee was appointed, with ...

... of the same opinion as Bailie Fraser that it would be a very good thing it the Council could by any means reduce the infant mortality in the burgh, but be thought that the methods they gnaw proposed to adopt were worse than the dieser*. He had very good ...

... The burgh mortality shows some little variation each alternate year. Thus 1895, 1897, 1899 compare strikingly in their greater severity and higher mortality. 1896 and 1398 compare singularly, also in comparative mildness and lower mortality. It appears ...