... INFANT MORTALITY. Sir,—You have called for suggestions for mitigating the excessive death-rate among infants here. I send you a cutting from the Demerara Argosy, in which the question receives very practical discussion. Yours faithfully, A. The question ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. THE QUESTION. IN NEW ZEALAND Mr. Seddon (the Premier of liew Zeit, I land) writing from. Wellington on. May. 7th says ; ..—The public mind in this colony. and in Australia has been much exercised by what was disclosed in the New louth ...

... of the causes, as they appear to thoughtful men, of the abnormal infant mortality in this colony. And first, there are those who deny that there is anything abnormal in the infant mortality of this island. But the following table which we have coinpiled ...

... riaing young eountryman:Dr Jams read, on the 20th October, before the Britieli Guiana Medical Assoeitition. a paper on Infant Mortality viewed from the records of the Maternity Ward of Georgetown Hospital • a subject of near i n terest for the whole W ...

... parasite which nadir the oomprehessive term Worms is accountable, as Dr. Gray points out, for the abnormally large infant mortality among our peasantry. The prospective saving of human life which would pea bably result from a discovery is . surely worth ...

... Saturday Jost. He dwelt the faot that,. in spits of the spread o(. Ettacatioe ano our inareased knowledge of stenitatica, infant mortality re'sallied at.. a Ugh figure,. and eigea, of deterioratiou were only too evident iii the youeger generation. That improper ...

... instruction of girls and young women in household management. For example, some effect might be produced upon . the fearful infant mortality. Perhaps such cases might be worked in connection with the churches, by the ladies of the various congregations. ...

... Debility and Still Births are accountable for 214 deaths; Old Age and Accident are the cause of 86. But the infant mortality is appalling; more than 50 per cent of the children born nut living beyond 5 years. An interesting table gives the following ...

... were 570.9 per too°, and had been reduced to 516.8 in 1907, has begun to rise again, and stood at 551.6 per in 1909. Infant mortality was still distressingly large. 332.4 per died before attaining x 2 months. 106.9 of children did not attain 5 years. ...

... WE invite contributions,•not necessarily for publication, especially from the rural districts, on the causes of the infant mortality by which we lose 50 per cent. of the number of children born in this island, annually, before they have attained 'their ...

... the poor in.other only by after developments. These are the principal causes which have been suggested for the abnormal infant mortality in the island. We have to tender our best thanks to the correspondents who have responded to our invitation to furnish ...

... score of insalubrity. The more so, when we consider the numerous causes in operation in this Colony to raise the rate of infant mortality which in the year under review, was nearly 35 per cent of the total deaths. Considering also the utterly careless way ...