... association exists between the general employment women in industrial occupations and high rate of infant mortality, whereas there is diminution in infant mortality if women are not so employed. It cannot be too strongly emphasised that children die because ...

... past, Wigan has been noted for specially high, birthrate, accompanied, however, by abnormally high rate of infant mortality. This excessive mortality is in part dependent on the fact that considerable number of children have, at birth, so little vitality ...

... for few days. One hundred I and five (infants) had been made ; quite I a number of chMren were recovering from whoop- • cough. She finds that many the mothers 1 are very lax about their own food. Six infant! mortality investigations had been made. She has ...

... 285 w baptised the same Vfar at BiUinge, Bindley, and li, ti Hand, making total of 903. When you have !1..«ed fur the infant mortality, which must have been rv I-Me. every young person in the were -cted. you would not reached the average numb. U'-tnmon ...

... 35.0 ia 1898 ; while the ■leaibs gave rate 23.4, as compared with ZJ.9, 21.1, and 19-i the three preceding years. The infant mortality Itel year io Wigan **qaal to p 1.000 birtbs registered, ss against 193 per 1,000 in 1898 ; the deaths elderly prisons ...

... present, the question of housing was eminently women's question. average infant mortality throughout the was 44 per 1,000. In the Garden City of Letch worth the rale mortality of infants was per 1 000. Wherever they got better housing, or whore the The teams ...

... district during September, 21 were infants under om year, and diarrhoea was the predominant eauae. Year district was out the only on# visited with high infant mortality, I find that the death rata » general and the infant mortality and ...

... diagnuaed, in early life. The mortality arising from diarrhtea a flagrant example of the fact that the Urge infant death rate is io * great toeasora due to improper feeding of infante, as thu disease results largely from the infant being fed improper food cunt* ...

... brain and manual work alike. Professor Woodhead suggested I bat more attention should b.* paid, studying (he question infant mortality, to alc.Miol'o consumption rbe parents, and pointed nut how of-an accounted few both epilepsy and innsnity in th- children ...

... fearful tr-it-*. KxporMire to cold, and the spread mfectx i* •iis-u.o- du- overcrowding seem he the two .an*-* of th- infant mortality. They were '.t!v awaking to what all that meant. One could bit f—l that the Government itself was not alive to th- - ...

... Tyndall, Westhonghton, is of opinion that * the mortality among infants has certainly diminished very gincc District Nurses were appointed, and the distribution of cards of instruction the care of infante has also helped.’ Favourable references arc also ...

... rate of infant mortality last quarter in the towns having been 146. and that in the counter 143 per 1,000 births. (M (be other districts comprised table Standisb and Aspull had the lowest, and Bindley and Pemberton had the highest rates infant mortality ...