... INFANT MORTALITY IN HONGKONG. At the Sanitary Board meeting, ulyll, a report relating to the infant mortality in the Colony. drawn up by Chief Detective Inspector Hannon. was sulanitted. Dr Clark said that a fee of a dollar waa charged the registration ...

... OVERLAND CHINA MAIL INFANT MORTALITY. Public attention in Great Britain has become concentrated upon the awful waste of infant life which is going on and which, according to Dr G. Newman who has made a special study of the subject, has been found to total ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN HONGKONG. Question Ite-copenod. At the conclusion of Thursday's meeting of the Sanitary Board, Dr Clark asked the permission of the Board to bring forward a matter that had already been discuesed—the question of infant deaths in the ...

... ---4.--- INFANT MORTALITY ng HONGKONG. At the meeting of the Sanitary Board on the 13th inst., the report of the omumittee appointed to consider the swzgestions of Dr Clink for reducing the excessive infant mortality of the colony was submitted. Hon. ...

... course infant mortality in China is is good skid worse than it is at Home, even in our big and populous cities. Therefore, among other things that it is proposed to teach the rising generation of girls is that of understanding the treatment of infants. There ...

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... French and Italian—had contributed in infant mortality 46 out of a total number of 210 deaths in the Colony--a percentage of a little over 21. Undoubtedly, in a malarial country like this, he continued, many of these infants died from malarial disease, but ...

... ben i 22. The mortality rate was 50 OS per thousand. In connection with our oorrespondent's letter (says the Singapore Free Pres)on infant mortality as the result of impure milk, it is of interest to note that the average monthly prosecutions for selling ...

... 4:3.74 in 1905. These figures are suggestive. As the birth rate is extremely low it is evident that it is not excessive infant mortality which is responsible for this alarmingly high death rate. Dr Simp. son alter carefully analysing the causes of death ...

... result of sanitary and hygienic improvement, and some of the most important fruits of this are found in a diminution of infant mortality. If fewer are born, the ptoportion of them that survive their first year is enormously increased. It is still true that ...

... there are often many families in one house, and so a correct estimate is not easy; and the climate being so healthy, infant mortality is low and the children swarm. The CHINA Mem has lately put down the numbers of people as 40,000. I think this is far ...

... cent., of pigs and cows 4 per cent., of horses 8 per cent. Of the young of our own kind, of human infants, 13 per cent, die, a rate of infant mortality which, if ruling among domestic animals, would bankrupt every stockbreeder in the land. There is no ...