... most operatnon ive causes of a high rate of infant mortality. The - domestic employment of women is given as a contributory cause of less importance than these two, and it is pointed out that infant mortality is higher among the poorer classes, where breast ...

... I propose to consider it under two headings. 1. The effect of alcohol on infant mortality. 2. The effect of alcohol on infant life. 1. The effect of alcohol on infant mortality. Alcohol is a poison, and therefore, as we should expect, a very ...

... Contents. Tho News of the Week Our Point of View. The Bed of Procrustes Topic of the Day. Infant Mortality. 1V , Alcoholism and Heredity. By Dr. Martindale 140 In Parliament The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies 141 The Compleat Organiser. ...

... Woman's Place is the Home. One hopes that the report on Infant Mortality, with its hideous revelations of the conditions under which women have to rear their babies,—the lack of drainage, water supply, milk supply, breathable air, and the rest,— will ...

... endeavour to meet some at least of the great evils existing. One of these is the terrible infant mortality in some of our workhouses. It was stated that the infant mortality in workhouses was double that among the population outside, and the Local Government ...

... longer responsible for a very high mortality rate in infants. For instance, in such a table of the causes of infant mortality as that in the Registrar-General's report for 1904, in which the total infant ...

... Look here upon this picture, and on thi.il The Report on Infant Mortality (1908). The Local Government Board has published the report presented to them by their Medical Officer on Infant Mortality. The rate has declined—a little, owing to the quickening ...

... Contents. 'AOC, The News of the Week Liberal Pledges for Electoral Reform Infant Mortality. VII., Bad Housing and Poverty. By Dr. Mary Murdoch In Parliament National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies: The Quarterly Council Meeting Mr. Bertrand Russell ...

... Contents. The News of the Week Our Point of View. A Liberal First Topic of the Day. Infant Mortality. M., Feeding of Infants. By Dr. Mary Murdoch 116 In Parliament National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies The Compleat Organizer. 1V . , The Young ...

... TO BRING UP THE CHILDREN ALONE. Politicians talk of infant mortality, and they punish the negligent woman whose baby falls into the fire ; buf r. how many more babies die because their mothers are ill-nourished ? And how does the law look after the mother ...

... people who care and write about infant mortality and the many-sided problems which it entails are themselves living in large, airy, well-drained, well-lighted, comfortable houses, whereas, within a stone's throw, the poor infants they wish to save are living ...

... human infant better than any artificial food, if (hut this is a very important if) directions are thoroughly understood and carefully carried out. But in this happy-go-lucky country of ours, where we talk and write ad nauseam about infant mortality, it ...