... INFANT MORTALITY IN THIS COLONY. TO THIS MIRROR. Sir,—ln the %parse of the delivered at the epee • ! the vi Ccanoil; h -rate of infants as a very serious matter and added: A better knowledge of the care and nurture of infants at birth and afterwards ...

... Illegitimacy and Infant Mortality. The Hon. C. K. Mackeliar, M 11.. C M., 1 1.L.C., President of the State Children Belief Board, made out in his last report 3 strong cipee for the introduetion into New South Wales of an Act for the protection of illegitimate ...

... DR. LAURENCE ON INFANT MORTALITY, /given out the chance ef taking rout, will !develop into a great stately oak, one of / England's utightiest and most, useful trees. This is a statement of plain fact, which I requires no swtch of the imagination to realize ...

... , City Coroner on Carelasi' Mothers - THINKS THEY SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. - INFANT MORTALITY. ENQUIRY POSTPONED. ICOME ...

... Health on Tuesday, a Committee was appointed to go into the question of infant mortality in Triuidad and to make reeommeudations with a view to stemming the mortality rate among infants under one year. That it is high time something should be done is borne ...

... came next with 35. Sixty-nine of the deceased persons were between 20 and 60 years old. The Infant Mortality report for the same period showed that 50 infants had died. The largest number of deaths were between— three and six months old, and diarrhueil ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY. IT is now more than a year since mittee was appointed to deal with the question of infant mortality which was then being warmly discussed owing to the increasingly high death rate among children from one to five years old. Whether ...

... decrease of infant mortality. To be successful, the efforts must, be constant and unremitting. Both Church and State have shown a very necessary anxiety to do something to ameliorate the conditions which militate against the health of the infants in the colony ...

... in extenso yesterday. Throughout the British West Indies (and it must be as bad or worse in other Caribbean islands) infant mortality is far too heavy and calls for some systematic and constant effort to minimize the evil. The great root of the trouble ...

... booked at the Booking Office of the CALEDONIAN HOUSE.-560 this colony for the guidance of mothers to redoes our alarming infant mortality Is distributed broadcast over the country and at the same time sour floor, damaged lice and I milk, are retailed at ev ...

... occurrence of infant mortality and among them was the detega. tion to the female branches of the Churches' Guilds of the duty of instructing the mothers of the poorer classes in the matter of bringing up their infants on wholesome foods. Want mortality is also ...

... that last year the death-rate was the lowest for the past five years. The infant mortality is unduly too high. Nearly 28 per thousand of the total number ot deaths were infants under one year and nearly 85 per thoasand were of those under five. There ...