... notification of births, with the view of taking preventive measures against the prevailing infantile mortality. At the National Conference on infant mortality in 1906 strong expression was given to the view that early notification of birth was absolutely necessary ...

... NO INFANT MORTALITY. The most notable statement in the summary of Fleet’s Public Health Report, published by the General Purposes Committee for the Administrative County of Southampton, is that which chronicles its complete immunity from infant mortality ...

... in future than they had done in the past. Correspondence in “The Times”’ day by day showed that the alarming rate of infant mortality was due to impure sources from which the milk supply was derived. ...

... however, to nmote that the infant mortality rate for 1905, as mentioned above, while still higher than it should be, is considerably bhelow the avera e of preceding years. ' In discussing the question ot infantile mortality in the district, it ils important ...

... deathrate for the town is 13.0, that for the camp 4.3, and for the two combined the record one of 9.4 per 1,000. The infant mortality of 112 per 1,000 of the kirths registered cannot be cousidered satisfactory; Improper {feeding inheritad disease, and ...

... Aldershot out of the general arrangement ¥r the county—they had made arrangements themselves, they had reduced their infant mortality, and he asked they might be kindly allowed to conduct their own sanitary matters with a medical man who was an M.D., ...

... occasion to point to the especially high infant mortality. This, he has explained, was due to unnatural and improper feeding. Special directions were, as a result, issued by the Council for the proper feeding of infants. It may be of in-| terest to note that ...

... require him to come to me to ask what kind of healer I will allow him to call.” As a matter of fact, Mr. Paget talks as if infant mortality were unknown; as if no child had ever suftered pain or died under a doctor, and as if it were an absolutely scientific ...

... AMr. May: What is the object? The Clerk: So that yvou will get at onge the knfowltedge of the proper attendance of these infants. Mr. May: Is it with a view to our Medical Officer coming uvon the scene? The Clerk: As he has now deaths, so he will have ...

... THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE A NEW ACT SUGGESTED APPOINTMENT TO REDUCE INFANTILE MORTALITY At the meeting of the Aldershot Education Committee on Tuesday morning, the Rev. C. E. Hoyle (Chairman), Mr. J. May (vice-chairman;, Miss Herbert, the Revs. J. de Verd ...

... numbered, with corrections, 285, giving a net death-rate of 14.7 per 1,000, and infantile mortality 149 per 1,000 of the births registered. The hifihest mortality occurred during the months of July, August and September; indeed, these three months are wholly ...

... are already admirably furnished. Mr. Bateman’s proposition was put and carried. INFANTILE MORTALITY. In his report, the Medical Officer stated: “Infantile mortality during the month has been excessively high; twenty-eight deaths have occurred of children ...