... of age die annually, and the idea of the hospital is to protect the infants born to poor parents from exposure to cold, impure food and other ills which tend to increase infant mortality. All of this will help the offspring of the poor to survive, whether ...

... London Daily News says Briefly everything is falling—the death rats, the marriage rate, the birth rate, the percentage of infant mortality. The birth rate, at 27.2 per thousand, shows a fall of 0.7 per thousand upon the year preceding, and is the lowest on ...

... the mother or the guardian of each child that has made satishotory progress. The object of the schema is to reduce the infant mortality. ...

... A School for Mothers. At Ghent a school for mothers has hrought down infant mortality from 350 per 1000 to 40 per 1000. The movement at Clhent has in connection with it a dispensary, a friendly society, a milk depilt, and systems of visiting and foster ...

... steps will be taken for diplomatic action. The same right bonoarablelgentleman, presiding at the National Conference on Infant Mortality, is repotted to have attributed the heavy death-rate to the use of canned meats, which be considered unnatural food, ...

... about a high infant mortality is SO much bunkum and pretence. High WS the infant mortality is, our population is not declining. In this island we are still overcrowded. In view of this fact, the solicitude of the Board of Health for infants ...

... think a signal injitetice has been done iu this appointment Infant Mortality in Port-of-Spain. At i meeting of the Trinidad Board of Health held on tbe 3rd inst., report on infint mortality we submitted by Dr. J. R. Dickson, assistant Medical Officer ...

... was rife the colony; and that the evidence given before the Mortality Commission afforded strong ground for the suspicion that milk adulteration had much to do with the high infant mortality of the colony. As the Surgeon General pat it, of every-1,000 ...

... there has been in London, a decrease of 44 per cent. in epidemic diseases ; a decrease of from 14 to 19 per cent, in infant mortality ; a decrease of 25 per cent. in the death rate : a diminution of 125,000 in number of those soul-destroying one-roomed ...

... Argentine frozen meat, large quantities of which have been destroyed. Mr. John Borns presiding at the National Conference on infant mortality, attributed the heavy deathrate to the use of canned meats which he considered unnatural food constituting a national ...

... in Chicago, an important feature of the health records is the marked reduction in the proportion of infant and child mortality to the total mortality of all ages. They demonstrate a reduction of thirty per cent under one year, of nearly fiftysix per cent ...

... purity of the meat and milk supply. appallingly large infant mortality (said Sir Frederick), was, to a large extent, due to unwholesome and improper food, and could be reduced to the minimum if the infants could only be aupplied with pure milk. The treatment ...