... causes of the high rate of infant mortality in Redditoh and district should be reckoned. I think, the excessive use of soothing syrups. These may not necessarily be given in over doses, but mothers do not realise that while an infant sleeps so many hours ...

... without animal food altogether. The death-rate among both blacks and whitheinDeciember was three times the average, and the infant mortality is very high. Privations are beginning to tell, adds the correspondent, and until we get relief in the shape of proviaions ...

... that of infant m•rtality, which reaches • death•rate of 142 calculated on the total birth.. On this subject Dr. Hill writes :— In my report for 1899 loaned attention, as, indeed, I have often previously dose, to this terrible waste of infant life, and ...

... d urban was tbi. year a very mild one.. Fourteen deaths occurred in infants under one sear of age, the death-:ate being equal to Si) per 1.000 in. habitants, a:..1 the infant mortality hint* being (quid to a rate of 132 deaths per 1,000 births. Thor'. ...

... administrative county (13 3). In view of the sad tale of infant deaths told at the meeting of the Redditch Urban District Council, on Tuesday night, it is gratifying to note that toe mortality rate among infants in the county was lest year rather low, although ...

... expenditure, seeing that the work bad been commenced, and could not be completed without it. OLDBURY INFANT= MORTALITY. Tee very high infant mortality ie Oldbury has again called for the attention of the committee, the average rata for the years 1891 to ...

... paragraph ' L sad story. cleansing the desirability of a public day nursery for the proper oars of infante, with a new of diminishing their mortality. Brewing the outline history of moat of the public movement; in Ilsrlditch in the pest, the following ...

... painful pert of Dr. Stevenson's report is that in which he deals with the high infantile mortality of the district. If, as Dr. Stevenson says, the infant mortality is regarded by authorities as a most reliable test of the sanitary oondition of • distriot ...

... deathrate of 13.1 per thousand. Moseley was, as usual, the lowest with 8.3 per thousand of the population. The rate of infant mortality was a very satisfactory one, being 86 per thousand births, against an average for the past ten years of 107. Apropos ...

... in the money, and it wee decided to canvass the town for eminence. There was no other business of public interest. • INFANT MORTALITY IN ...

... theirs, what were they to do? There were many instancess where the tenants were entirely to blame. With regard to the infant mortality, he believed a great deal was due to careleorneve. He had often seen children sitting on doorsteps and other exposed ...

... elementary hygiene (domestic or home), both important subjects to everybody, and baying vast bearings on public health and infant mortality. Indirectly another advantage may accrue. It is probable that a second course of the Gilchrist lectures will be granted ...