... The high rate of infant mortality s much to be deplored, the more so as inquests Juring the last few years have demonstrated that many deaths among infants are due to ignorance on the part of the pareats. The Board of Health has gone te the trouble of ...

... north of England, with a consignment of coal, and is now unloading in the Old Braye Harbour, INFANT MORTALITY. We are sorry to report several cases of infant mortality during the past fortnight. ...

... GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS HEAVY INFANT MORTALITY IN RUSSIA. An Odessa organ, the Kievshoe Slovo, quoting from a medical census recently com- pleted, states that the mortality among in- fants up to one year of age in fifty Russian governments is 35 per cent ...

... Paddocks. INFANT MORTALITY IN ENGLAND. At a meeting of members of the House of Commons yesterday afternoon it was decided to ask the President of the Local Government Board to receive a deputation calling attention to the serious percentage of infant mortality ...

... the Sanitary Inspectors’ Association had been instrumental in securing great reduction in the death rate. The existing infant mortality was, however, a blot on the country’s escutcheon. ...

... CHILD TRAGEDIES. In 2 recent article on the subject of infant mortality, Dr. Wynn Westcott reports that during the last ten years there were 15,009 overlain infants im England and Wales, and in the year 1900 there were 1,774. In London alone the yearly ...

... inspection of the food supply, and the prevention of adulteration. Already it has been suggested that the high rate of infant mortality may be due to impurities in the milk supply; and if the suggestion is borne out by facts, it is imperative that an effective ...

... fore on Christmas Eve, when he paid visits to the homes of his juvenile correspondents with toys, cte, The question of infant mortality is viewed with grave concern across the Channel, and apparently is equally seriously regarded here. At yesterday's inquest ...

... twentyfour hours. The birth being ascertained, Mr. Broadbent sent womanly women with wise counsel—and he reduced the infant mortality by one-half in the district covered. Under the Early Notification of Births Act, which came into force on January 1, ...

... deaths of 39 infants during the year. As regards “illegitimate births, which usually add considerably to.the infant mortality I have been unable to obtain any data. “ Convulsions 7 again is the aseribed cause of a large number of infant deaths, viz: ...

... the‘ Mayor of Huddersfield said:—He did wmot believe that compulsory education had tended to reduce this terrible (infant) mortality in the slightest degree. Tt is sad that we have no large public that will appreciate a play for its poetic beauty or ...

... the rice, and bake the whole in a hot oven for a quarter of an hour, or a hittle longer . AVOIDABLS INFANT MORTALITY. Ever year about 120,000 infants die in this country alone, and there can be no doubt that an enormous proportion of this might be avoided ...