... inspector of the infirmary and hospital of the l'nion. Dr Dillon will be required to make special inquiries on the Subject of infant mortality and nursing in workhouses and also to inspect the children's and females' wards. ...

... ov births. And of boys Ixtrn many are punt and weakly. and more or less feeble-brained. An alarming increase of male infant mortality was coincident with the pre-war increase of girl births. By forbidding all strenuous activities. social or athletic—but ...

... lecture on the national importance of the reduction of child mortality was given by the principal medical officer of the English Local Government Board. Dr. Newshohne. He said that high infant mortality sins often attributable to inexcusable municipal neglect ...

... and Merthyr furnish death rates of 16 and 17 per thousand, and infant mortality rates of over 137 as compared with Poplar and Stepney's 16 and 15. and 118. and 112 respectively. The mortality rates of both Poplar and Stepney it must be remembered are far ...

... however, the results were apparent, as in the lowering of the rate of infant mortality. She could mention one town in France where preventive measures reduced the infant mortality in a few yeah from 25 per cent to nil. The pork of preventive medicine ...

... ip movement, Mr Henry Vivian made an effective point of the value of better housing conditions to the community. The infant mortality at the Hampstead Garden Suburb, for instance, has been reduced to 11 per thousand, as compared with 95 in London, and ...

... different type where, perhaps, the mothers are working in mills and factories and are handicapped in consequence. The rate of infant mortality in Bangor is vary small indeed—only U last year, of whom four were illegitimate. At the same time if it means the saving ...

... never absent from duty during the war. Infant Mortality and a Way to Check it. Amontat the most important problems which perplex public authorities and social reformers has always been the reduction of infant mortality. It is perhaps because this emotion ...

... Llanelly over 16. 0.. 16. 6. in Aberdaro. and 17. 6. in Swan sea. With these figures it was only to be ex peeled that the infant mortality was higher in these towns than in Stepney. Housing reformers in Wales need to din these facts isto the ears of every ...

... remarkable manner. The infant mortality e• the Hampstead Garden Suburb for the last 12 months was 47.6 per thousand against as averse for the 26 large towns of 145. Even Houreiville, which stands so very high the health table had as infant almighty veto et ...

... Edinburgh Om. 1..t-unanl'r Ward) 254. e.nd in krorteen quartcrs of York 349 persons to the acre. The price is an appalling infant mortality, general phyticad deterioration, low vitality, high death-rate. pauperism, iniotaity, ptattitution, intemperante, and ...

... infantile mortality at Westminster is one that. dealt with a matter of the Inman importance to the nation, and its proceedings have aroused a great deal of interest. It is cheer- I IL. MONTAUTV. ing to learn of the decrease in death rate alining infants in recent ...