... Infant Mortality / The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhoea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the con. tamination ...

... \ 8-d. INFANT MORTALITY ng Aurnuus.—Where the Australian working man's wife fails most is in the rearing of her babies. And why? One glance at the above tables will show that the milk item is very small compared to the other bills. Milk is almost the ...

... l'hus in the former country, inorlality, which in 1880 averaged only 17 per 1,000 inhabitants, in 1906 had fallen to 14. Infant mortality shrank from 112 to 82 per 1,000. In Norway tho rate showed a reduction from 16 to 13 per 1,000, and that of infanta from ...

... habit of leaving their babies in the care of young children, and the result is that Acton has a higher average rate of infant mortality than any town in the county. The proposal is one of the provisions of the Acton Improvement, which came before a Select ...

... municipal depot was feeding 80 children daily, and by the end of the then were 120 children on the books. The effect on tht infant mortality and diarrlicra rate has been marked REFIRIUNCI to the scheme which has been recenti.i announced for raising an Imperial ...

... Care of Infants, was especially appropriate at the present time, when the Devon County Council. are endeavouring to impress upon District Parish Councils, the necessity of doing all in their power to decrease the high rate of infant mortality. —On the ...

... which is to enable public authorities to erect abattoirs and to close private slaughterhouses. With the view of reducing infant mortality. Lb. Si. Pancras Borough C.ouncil has decided to poy to the father, or, failing him, to the doctor, midwife, medical ...

... firat demand sill be for an amnenty for all political prieonera. Other Interesting Items. An important conference on infant mortality is to be held in Calton Hall. Westminster, on June 13 and 14. - . While s cow watt being driven to Leicester fair it ...

... Melbourne City, 16.8. In zytnotic mortality the companion per 10,000 deaths is still more decidedly in favour of Melbourne. The figures are London, 20 - 4; Engl:sh towns, 192; Melbourne City, 7.9. The infant mortality per 1000 compares as follows: London ...

... is to be blamed for starting the recent unreasoning and unreasonable furore about milk and tuberculosis, resulting in infant mortality in towns. Not very much, perhaps; but there is reason to think that some undefinable amount of blame attaches theseto ...

... hlerlical Officer on infant and child mortality which do LOCAL not make very pleasant read- Anvitosi ing. True, that things are very much better than they were a few years back, and there has been • steady decline in infant mortality. That, at least, as ...

... Sheldon, births numbered 27. equal to a rate of 21 . 01, as compared with 24 90 in 1803 and 1724, the decennial mean. Infant mortality was lower than ever before. There were six deaths from the principal zymotic diseases, giving a zymotic rate of 087 per ...