... able to lay hands on give her ordinary infant mortality as 17 per hundred and the mortality of her illegitimate babies as 31 per cent. In England and Wales | believe the rate is now under 10 per cent. for all infants, and for illegitimates 15.7. Neither ...

... national point of view the best woTk for the mother was the proper up-bringing her children. However, if the high rate of infant mortality which now existed was to be reduced, and mothers were obliged to go to work account economic conditions, day nurseries ...

... Thetford Rural Council and Guardians. THE ANNUAL MEETP.G. MEDICAL OFFICERS ANNUAL REPORT. LOW INFANT MORTALITY. Dr. Cowan and Cercbro-Spinal Fryer. THI ISTIMATES. avimal • • Jl.rtford Rural Din 1,1111 .11 the Worklion.. in: Pridav last. when Lb., s s ...

... years and upwards, 69. Causes of death infants up to 12 months: Whooping cough 2, at elect Isis 2, syphilis 2, pneumonia I, other causes 1; under 1 month 3. from one month under year 5, death ot illegitimate infants 2. Causes all ages: Scarlet fever 1, ...

... year, and considerably below the average. The death rate was higher than last year, and slightly above the average. The infant mortality was high. Concluding, Dr. Hillier says: I have to thank the Chairman and members of the Conncil for the consideration ...

... of eight children under the age of 12 months would have given the statistics of infant mortality a much more rosy appearance. Dr. Harris considers the high infant mortality points to a poor state of health and physique in the mothers, apparently causing ...

... nearly black in comparison with the other combatant countries. He had it on the highest authority that the increase in infant mortality since the war began was almost entirely due to the fact that mothers had been drinking more alcohol —had, in fact, been ...

... way. 'l'hus in the former country, mortalor. which in 1880 averaged only 17 per inhabitants, in 1906 had fallen to 14. Infant mortality shrank from 112 to 82 per 1.000. In Norway the rate showed • reduction from 16 to IS per 1,000, and that of infanta 95 ...

... Board. The decUaa. the same basis of comparison, in the rate* or death from specific diseaaea waa follows.— Per cent. Infant mortality -JS Measles Scarlet fere* Whooping cough ~ Diphtheria and croup Enteric feeer Tubercutoaia (all forma) Pulmonary tuberculcaia ...

... were blame for this state affairs, and they ought to be altered so as to put end to it. “Infant mortality,” continued Mr. Wardle, “not only affected the infants themselves, but it had its influence upon the home life, right away from the beginning to ...

... the former country, mortality, which in l!feO averaged 17 per 1,000 inhabitants, in 1906 had fallen to 14. Infant mortality shrank from 112 to per 1,000. In Norway the rate showed a reduction from to 13 per 1,000, and that of infante frera 95 to 69. For ...

... Fhrmanti.r and Infant Mortality.— •Straking at a conference infant mortality, ilsll. W. .(minster, Mondav, Dr. Fremiotle. county woc ' tficer health lor Hertfordshire, said that Do- various Acts Parliament the rate of In, n mortality in ...