... question in paragraphs x 6, 17 and 18, thus:— Infant mortality or the waste of infant life as some writers describe it, is a pressing problem of the day not only in the West Indies, but in England ; though the infant death-rate is much lower there than with ...

... and the lowest, 69° on the 15th. t rained on 19 days. Trig Pioneer of Dominica has illustrated the fact that abnormal infant mortality in the West Indies is not confined to the human race, but has extended to journalistic offspring brought into the world ...

... creche at which the infants, not only of mothers sick in hospital, but of mothers obliged to leave home to work for a living, could be cared for during their absence. Both these things would conduce to keep down our abnormal infant mortality. But we think the ...

... being drained of their considerable Over and over again has the Pe ,;.istrar General point d out that this excessive infant mortality was due to the ign mince of mothers a.s to the suitable vality of food, and as to the manner of feeding very young children ...

... figurcs arc row Castries . 563, Choiseul 469. • Again are we confronted with the distressing fact of excessive infant and juvenile mortality on which the, Regis,trar has been ringing the changes for ,over thirty years. Though maternal •neglect in an u ...

... found itL the Square will be captured. Da. Stanley Branch, Assistant Colonial Surgeon, make this timely auggostion : This infant mortality to the dietridt tiontl:ines to be high. This is hi ft great measure duo to the fauity midw&ry practised by the old women ...

... district of that city notorious for its Want wortalily, who lived for a year. The mortality among infants decreased by more than one-half. The causes of infantile mortality are stated on authority to be XSt. ANTENATAL.—that act before the child is born ...

... atill-births) was 19•4 per 1000 of. the total population. It WaS 19:6 in 1903. The Table of Mortality shows the rate per 1000 at different periods of life. The mortality is still very high. Tile rte for children under 1 year was 355•5. per 1000, and 1:5I•9 ...

... AT THE OFFICE OF THE VOICE. Another help to the preservation of. infant life would be—as has often been recommended by the Registrar in his Reports—the institution of a crtche at which mot - hers compelled to go away from home to work for a living ...

... one year per 1000 of the population was 2735 and 18t3•9. of children from one to five years. In 190`. : it was 312•3 for infants under one year and 156• k:. foz children frqiu one to. five.years. The principal causes of death as returned (still-births ...

... annual death-rate of 24 per thousand of the population. When is made for the abnormal Liflato.a of this rate by an examssive infant ne.), talky, due to the igaoraace and carcleasucris of mothers in the lower cl43ses, it will seen that, if the deutb-rate ...

... Honduras 46 7. The Registrar General of Jamaica has provided a table showing the extent to which illegitimacy seems to affect infant life, and from this statement it appears that in the city of Kingston 32 per cent, of the illegitimate children born during ...