... INFANT MORTALITY. We (Nation) congratulate the Local Government Board on Dr. Newsholme's wonder. fully full and penetrating analysis of the facts and causes of infant and child mortality in England and Wales. The Report should be read and mastered by ...

... 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 contamination ...

... COMBATING INFANT MORTALITY, The General Purposes Committee con4dered a letter from the Local Got - eminent Board, in which it was pointed out that in certain cases a midwife is bound to call in the services of a medical man, and that it is necessary that ...

... IN FANTI LE MORTALITY, The attention of the County Council having been drawn to thepersistence of a needlessly high rate of infant mortality in the county, they asked the the Itistrict Councils to instruct registrars to supply a full return of all births ...

... former country, mortality, which in averaged only 17 per 1.000 inhabitants, in 1906 had fallen to 14. Infant mortality shrank from 112 to 82 per 1,000. In Noru, , y the rate showed a reduction from 16 to 13 per 1,009, and that of infants from 95 to 69. ...

... township. who, being born during his term of office. should live to be one year old. Thc. Mayor's obj , et was to check infant mortality by encouraging the instruction of mothers iti the rearing of their inkildren. lie rein t of the experiment was that out ...

... borough. I!ZEANT NORTA 4ITY, Theft was an in% Hatton to attend a conference at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the question of infant mortality, and the Maxus remarked that it was a matter of national and local importance, and he regretted that other engagements ...

... of the intrea-e of infant mortality. Statistics showed that last year infants died lieforc they acre a year old a quartur of the her of deaths hi the country. While the general death rate had decreased the rate of infant mortality remained, ...

... Medical Officer on infant and child mortality which do Lour. not make very pleaeint read- AVTILORITI Es' ing. True, that thineeare NZGLECT. very much better than they were a few years back, and there has been a steady decline in infant mortality. That, at least ...

... 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 Committee ...

... carry out. Ile was sure they all felt that the question of the child life of the community was a most important one. Infant mortality was increasing, and what was even worse the physical and moral death in life of too many of these little survivors was ...

... conditions of hygiene older peo* Beet: much longer than they did years ago, but there had been no improvement in the rate of infant mortality. Many of those who did survive were brought up under such conditions that instead of being strong, healthy citieens they ...