... poorer classes wiU tell you stories beaeng out this. and all such doctors will wrlcomeDr Hope's words. Lord Robert Cecil's Infant Mortality Bill, now before the House of Commons. provides for the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of the birth of ...

... fear of poverty were terrible evils. If children were allowed he been they bad • right to all the fulness of life. Yet infant mortality wee scandalous. There could be no moral sanction for the present competitive system. The existence of slums a sufficient ...

... year, and 9 persons died over 6o years including over 8o years. In explanation of the exceedingly high and regrettable infant mortality I have to state that it was almost entirely due to attacks of summer diarrhoea, which disorder assumed quite an epidemic ...

... 000 births; £30—.£50 a mortality of 113 ; and under 213 a mortality of 127. He expresses the opinion that the ignorance of many mothers as to the average infant's requirements is undoubtedly answerable for much needless suffering. Dr. Fiteegmari, in ...

... is on the right hoes, and may already in part account for decrease in the number of infant de.the. The factors which have inherit* is rousing the deaths of infante are complex and yet not folly understood, and it is probable that meteorological .onditions ...

... human. Many of them suffer from chronic ;tethers, and the sickening smell of the arid-cleaned skins is also injurious. Infant mortality is terribly high in fur-pulling families. Infection, said Mrs. MacDonald, is extremely liable to be r•onveyed through ...

... 000 I 4 7 Deaths from seven principal zymotic diseases, 1.29 ; infant mortality, annual death rate of infants under one year per 1,000 births, 121. With regard to the causes of the mortality, a comparison with the previous year is, on the whole, satisfactory ...

... cleanliness, clothes. condition of tissue, muscle, etc This was the second show held by the Infant Health Society, whose objects are to diminish the rate of infant mortality in Ealing by educating mothers of the working class. and to prevent the degenerate of ...

... fever, typhoid fever, puerperal fever, and erysipelas, is equal to 11 per 1,000, as compared with 2 5 for last year. Infant Mortality.—The deaths of children under 1 Year of age is equivalent to 124'6 per 1,000 children born and registered; under 1 month ...

... humane. We cannot leave the old, the sick and the infirm to die by the way. It is useless to tell us that the appalling infant mortality is a case of the survival sit the fittest, ordinary humane people feel that it is a terrible blot upon our civilization ...

... ADDMONAL MORTALITY. The Medical Officer reported that 56 deaths (17 males and 30 females) were registered in the Borough during the month of January. and 87 births (50 males and 37 females). That number was rather in excess of late returns and the additional ...

... IA TILE MORTALITY. The infantile mortality rate is the most accurate of all the various rates mentioned, as it is based on • known, and not estimated quantity vie: the number of births ; registered dining he year. As before stated these amounted to 482 ...