... score of insalubrity. The more so, when we consider the numerous causes in operation in this Colony to raise the rate of infant mortality which in the year under review, was nearly 35 per cent of the total deaths. Considering also the utterly careless way ...

... conduce very much to the development of the district, to the promotion of health among the people, to the prevention of infant mortality, to the increase of population to meet the growing demand for labour, and Dr. W. H. B..Aikins, F.B.C.P. London, to the spread ...

... high figures of infant mortality. how much of this id due to the unavuid&hie neglect caused by the necessity under which mothers of the labouring class are to work far their living away fioni their dwellings and how far many infant lives could be prese:ved ...

... The rate is be. he !wenn* of the previous years. The rats of infant mortality has risen beyond the record of any former period, having -boen 3t.07, orover one-third of the total mortality of the year. If we allow that one half of this number of deaths ...

... relieve suffering, to save life, over an area of 233 squate miles! to ten thousand of the poptda. tion ! What wonder that infant mortality in this island is constant at 33 per cent. of the births, or that half the children born, die before they reach the age ...

... possibility of an autopsy, of which they have a horror, removed. The Infant Mortality of the District is alarming and is mainly accouteed for by the quaint notions held by the mothers on infant feeding.. 1 have been doing my to instruct these people and, front ...

... law of this colony—No. 56 of zBBl—being to all intents and purposes a dead letter, is also suggested as . a cause of infant mortality. For the unwedded mother may be either unable to maintain her child by her unaided work, or she is compelled to neglect ...

... extremes of rain and sun over a half mile of exposed and irregular road will not conduce to the reduction of our abnormal infant mortality, nor will the dragging of diseased limbs over the same distance, and in similar conditions, make for the speedy cure ...

... net birth rate, last year, weer tg,t4 38.00 oil the net death rate 19.30 per of the population. Even in the matter of infant mortality, where we alwava thought we were ex• ceptioual, with 3.8 deaths per 1000 an,t,tally, of children under one year, we find ...

... opinion of Rev. Mr. Glasgow and the Hou. IA G. Garraway that the first step that shot‘ld be taken to decrease the rate of infant mortality must be to decrease the rate ot illegitimacy. At present, the woman bears the burden and the shame, the man escapes ...

... their mothers were toiling hard for their exist- Oh, it is indeed cruel I. No wonder there is such an abnormal rate of infant mortality. I am afraid, Sir, that lam drifting away from the point at issue, I therefore come back to it. The Catitries Town Board ...

... frozen meat—large quantities , of which have been deitroyed. Mr. John Burns presiding at the Nation' at Conference on infant mortality, attribu. ted the heavy death rate to tr,e use of canned meats which he considered unnatural food, constituting a tritiomil ...