... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic d iarrlicea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the contamination ...

... marriage was the decline in the birth of children and the carelessness with which they were treated. It it were not for infant mortality our race would be strong to maintain the position to which God had mercifully called us—that of raising up pew dominions ...

... go out to work and leave her children to be cared for, she said. But we must face things as they arc. The terrible infant mortality is duo to the fact that the poor mother is ofteu obliged to neglect her children. The Bishop, after declaring his interest ...

... habit of leaving their babies in the care of young children, and the result is that Acton has a higher average rate of infant mortality than any town in the county. The proposal is one of the prmisions of the Acton Improvement, which came before a Select ...

... for me. muWINSLOWS ••CKILDREICTEETHING SOOTHING el SOFTENS GUMS —ALIN AU N S CHIMISTU One of the principal reasons why infant mortality is so high, said a medical wittu to , at Marviebone County-court. that nur:•ing motfiers have acquired the habit of ...

... were registered, was less than in any of the previous ten years. A very noticeable improvement had taken place in the infant mortality, seven deaths only, as against sixteen in 1901. Of the deaths 24 were in people over 65 years of age. There had been ...

... published, he lots st •thing; to say about the decline of the birth-rate. But as greet, tr greater, an evil as (hi. is infant mortality, and Huddersfield and its ex-Mayor have pet an example to the country in the interesting experiments which have been ...

... small holdings movement, and at a sale at Old Lrake the average price obtained was £7O an acre. With the view of reducing infant mortality. the St. Pancras Borough Council has decided to pay to the father, or, failing him, to the doctor. midwife, medical student ...

... which were children under two years, while of the last seven burials six were infants under eight months. To dwellers in towns it seems strange that there should be much mortality in a country village, where, it is generally thought, with fresh air in the ...

... of an up-to-date society. And the natural consequences of this unscientific method of selection are a high rate of infant mortality and a very low standard of living. I must say, from my own experience, that the courageous words of the medical officer ...

... spokes to softly. Dn. M vests:. Medical °Meer of Health for the Gorton Distriet of Manchester. commenting on the very high infant mortality, says that each succeedieg y, ar confirms his observations that the annual epidemic of diarrhoea and typhoid is connected ...

... children. I know there are exceptions. but we are now dealing with the big majority and those living far from the cities. ' Infant Mortality.—This is no news to those who live in this country and know how the Boers live. Nor are the reasons far to seek. The ...