... INFANT MORTALITY. There are black spots in the borough innumerable where you will find tumbledown dwellings, stinking courts, dark passages and darker staircases, evideocies of damp and bad drainage, and a general air of t 7 . t 1 1 t . _ 1 - z•-.. • ...

... THE UMPIRE, SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 1904. INFANT MORTALITY IN WALES. ALARMING STATISTICS. OVERCROWDING AND EARLY MARCIAGES. CS PXCIA L.] Little short of • sensation has been caused in South Wales by the publication of the recent return of the Registrar.Getteral ...

... of the feeding of infants treated from a national *point of view by Dr. George Carpenter, physician at the North Eastern Hospital for children, in a paper read on Saturday evening at Carpenters' Hall, E.C The infant mortality in this country was ...

... districts. Low wages were not the cause of a high infant mortality, for the lowest death. rste was also the county with the lowest rate of wages. In fact, at the time of the cotton famine the infantile mortality in Lancashire fell beeause the women stayed at ...

... struck on the head rendered unconscious. The hag containing the money had disappeared. COTTON SPINNING AND INFANT MORTALITY. • The infantile mortality - returns from some of the pottery towns are easily exceeded In, Lancashire. In Tunstall the number is given ...

... notice, if you are observant, as you pass ! through the slums, that there are very few young ehildren. The reason is that infant, mortality is terribly high, one in four of the 'Children born failing to live twelve months: A slum worker put it as worse than ...

... Toynbee Society, Dr. H. Ashby. at the Ancoate Are Museum delivered a lettere night o* infant Mortality and its relation to the supply. He compered the rate of mortality i among nfants under twelve moothe old in New York with that of klaitelsoter—to the ...

... being 947,949, while in 1904 they were 944,703, orfthree thousand less. Yet another fact which the figures show is that infant mortality is still very large. The figures for the three months that ended in December—representative of the year—show that 138 ...

... beaelkial effect The result of this week eon- be tsbalaterl, or *via estimated, but it mart have done much to the appalling infant mortality of this district. All this has been dose most economically; for, including dross, &orgies' appliances, 14 D d a proportionate ...

... not assuaged. Instead 01 horYinfr What do doctors mean when they say that the tremendous infant mortality is caused by improper feeding I They mean that meet infante' foods ars of a starchy nature rickets steam* They ars not complete foods. is a perfect ...

... can't spare the time, and that's plain English, you know. • * • We are doing our best to check cruelty to children, and infant mortality. The law sees to the supervision of baby-farming, but ice-cream vendors are seldom found out. One nice person of this ...

... intent moo Way by about 33 per cent. I can give You a specific example of the lowering infant death. rate undor one year of age, oolltrivting th• rate of infant mortality in certain districts for the same week at approxinsati•ly the same temperature for the ...