... was I the subject of an interesti:tg discussion. Dr. C. W. Saleeby regarded maternal ignotanew as the foremost cause of infant mortality. In the supreme business of tiarenthood, which should be the most responsible, because it was incomparably the most momentous ...

... NOTES OF THE DAY. INFANT MORTALITY IN FACTORIES. The Sanitary Congress has this week discussed various important questions relating to the welfare of the people, and the disclosures of Dr. Reid concerning infant mortality ought to have the effrect of ...

... wanted for the benefit of the poor who do not know now to treat their children. Infant mortality is still alarmingly high in this country, and improper feeding of infants is assumed to be largely responsible for this. There are voluntary agencies for ...

... the mean rate in the ten Preceding second quarters. Of the total deaths. 2'2.37e Si children under one year of age. and Infant mortality, measured by the proportion ot h. under one year to te:rd birth , . equal to ninety-tire per 1.000. proportiso heventeen ...

... statements that Dr. Joyle has attributed to ber. it would }, she ere Dr. Doyle finds the words, o leave the question of infant mortality and of concentration camps entirely Ltt at the whole question of the concentration writes Miss Hobhouse, “I hould be ...

... where people of all ages and both sexes are huddled together without any regard to the com- mon decencies of life. The infant mortality is placed as high as fifty per cent., while those who survive their earlier trials grow up without even the rudiments ...

... leakages prevented. INFANT MORTALITY. Dr. Reid (Staffordshire), medical officer of health, dealt with the influence which the practice of young mothers engaged ii factory work had in maintaining the excessively high infant mortality rates of many of our ...

... figures being 15°2 per 1,0v). It is nothing to say Prisoner wa meteorological conditions are responsible Surrey Assive The infant mortality had = also fused, the Ch at was still tar higher than it not take the No less than 4,695 fatalities were cause.! evidence ...

... killed. This '.turtling statement was made by Broadbent. in an addresi at Ossett (Yorks) relative to the local rate of infant mortality. lie added: The guilt lies somewhere ia Onsett. It lime on the whole of this community. The same guilt that rests on ...

... every p-obability that the Bill will speedily pare through the Parilanientai7 ordeal. Primarily the causes which lead to infant mortality will claim attention. Next the methods of timing with juvenile offenders. and as a further instalment, the removal of ...

... almost ! unheard of, the infant mortality rate is only: 70.2 per I,istO births, and it is only 91.7 in the whole of Ireland. Again, in the primitive strenuous life of the North of Scotland. in Orkney and Shetland. there is an infant death.. rate of only 39 ...

... yams mothers. Jesting widi the question of the underfeeding of shildren and with intent mortality. thin ronneetioa ots instructive to compare the death-rate of infante 4 our large centres of peaceful industry with that of the children of employees in one ...