... BABY CULTURE. INFANT MORTALITY AND THE IGNORANCE OF THE MOTHER periodically waves of Infant mortality sweep over our country, and a time of improvement and lessening of infant mortality is usually followed one ...

... SAVING CHILD LIFE. THE TEACHING OF SCHOOLS. When the Na f ional Conference on Infant Mortality, which conclude! its deliberation? Liverpool, resumed yestcrdav. Dr. John Robertson, Medical Officer Health for Birmingham, read a paper dealing with tho subject ...

... not only infant mortality, but also infant morbidity, because large proportion of infants reached the age of one year with a weakened constitution and a lowered resistance to disease. Overcrowding contributed largely to high infant ...

... London, last night, on The Cava Womanhood, that a man fk> as liked with hi* wjle- Early marriages were the cense frightful infant mortality. She knew one gixi who was married 14 and had children M eight yeans. There had been ease taken of womanhood, and until ...

... that no great diminution of the Infant mortality may looked fur till the Notification of Births Act is adopted and health visitor appointed. Mainly through the efforts the Health Society, ever, the mortality of infants last year was reduced to 141.08 ...

... INFANT HYGIENE. TOO SUBORDINATE A PLACE IN THE MEDICAL CURRICULUM. The National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and for the Welfare of Infancy have issued a report on recent investigations cf the facilities which are afforded in the ...

... GUARDING INFANT LIFE. Stalybridge is to have baby show during the coming spring. A short time ago a school for mothers was commenced, the object being to give iustruction«in the upbringing and care of infants, and thus to reduce the rate of infant mortality ...

... FIGHTING INFANT MORTALITY. An English speaking Conference on Infant and^tb * the «h and sth August, under the presidency i m »«™. President of the Local Govern The conference is being organised ? lona . Association for the Prevention of Infant ...

... th”paat year of 27.2, ami death-rate of The infant mortality rate of 108 per 1,000 la lowest record, the diminution being ascribed bv Or. Hilton, the raedicul officer, proper ftfeilinK a exposure of Infants cold. ...

... The death rate was 6085 per 1 000 as against 9 852 in 1908. Eight children died under the age of 12 months, the rate of infant mortality thus being 64 per 1,000 births. This shows increase as compared with the rate for 1908 and with the average for the years ...

... death-rate among: infants in 1912 were the high summer rainfall and the low temperature associated with it. The climate conditions of 1912 stood in striking contrast with those of 1911, and these were reflected in the figures of infant mortality, viz.. 109 in ...

... at the mill tends Ue child at home liable to this particular disease* Then let him study Nelson. the same period its infant mortality rate from that disease was fifty-five per cent below that of the average which his own investigators struck for England ...