... infant Mortality in Lancashire. ¢ AN INVENTION OF THE DEVIL.” At the annual meeting on Monday of the Association for the Care of Infant Life in Gorton, Dr. Webb said the object of the 1 association was to encourage mothers in the rearing of their children ...

... Where Infant Mortality is Remarkably Low. ———— At Letchworth (Garden City) there was not a single case of infant mortality during the past year out of a total population of 5,000 people. Even with children of all ages, only one died during the same period ...

... wonder and bemoan that the big girls and boys are so rough and inconsidemte, and that the population is decimated by infant mortality. Tlf half the old dears now in the workhouses were given 7s. a week, and their relations encouraged to support them, ...

... done much to awaken Irishwomen to a sense of thelr responsibility in the matter of preventible disease. Seeing that the infant mortality of Ireland is no less than 95 per 1,000, the need for such a mission like Ladv Aberdeen’s is apparent. Ireland, indeed ...

... contained in Mr. G. R, Sims’ striking series of articles so well entitled ‘“ The Black Stain,” the dire statistics of infant mortality are largely ascribed to improper feeding. Every mother, and every woman endeavouring to remedy this unhappy state of ...

... many quarters, but Dr. Robinson points out that there is something to be said on the other side. His observations on the infant mortality are characterised by his usual outspokenness and robust commonsense. He says that many suggestions and weil-thought-out ...

... folly if they did not send their own representatives to the local Councils. After giving some remarkable figures as to infant mortality in Burnley, thel speaker, appealed for support for the two candidates, who were fighting not in their own interests but ...

... tanti Tities of Huddersfield to lower the infq,mie mortality have impressed all gocial reaqd d’\\. These efforts commenced in 1905, ;he i‘:lrfmg that and the two following years ’lopped antile mortality of Huddersfield ;x‘-emfl 18 per cent. as _compared ...

... what he saw, and he helieved the knowledge he saw applied in the numing competition would go far to solve the problem of infant mortality (applause). They ought to encourage these classes all they could, and take advantage of the good things put hefore them ...

... in one year amounted to 115,002 children, The bulk of them, according to | Mr. G. R. Sims, are due to drink, and the infant mortality in the same time was 123,934. One is almost sick of the cry, the silly ery which is now being made about votes for women ...

... fastened on. At the age of 14, when the boy left school, the detetrioration began. We had saved any amount of infant lifo by our schools. Infant mortality now was far less than it was hefore thd compulsory system of education was -established, but after we had ...

... —_— MORTALITY AMONG BOTTLE-FED INFANTS Dr. Thomag Holt, the Burnley Medical Officer of Health, in his annual report, states that the death-rate is 19.7, as against 16.8 last Year, and an average of 19.46 for the last ten years. The increase was lar_gelx ...