... Government Board on Infant and Child Mortality, which has just been issued, makes out a I very strong case indeed against the , theory that it is wrong to interfere with Nature by attempting to lessen the rate of infant mortality. Dr.,. blewsholme gives ...

... birth-rate. habies as are horn must he reared in the interests of the State. As to the of the decrease in the rate of infant mortality. Mr. Burns is disposed to regard i them as numerous--a continuous stream. 'The conference yesterday was held tor the ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY, During the year under review there died 185 iffants under one year of age, against 193 during the previous year. This gives an infant mortality of 103 demths per 1,000 births, or the same rate as that for the yeur 1913, CAUSES OF ...

... than, said to belong to .Swansea, the rear of the and him. : feeding (Dr. says) the greatest, natural protection against infant mortality. Lord Kitchener is said looking about for an English home, and be i* now in negotiation for Jacobean house Domatahire ...

... the war had shown that it was not a T sTI e gy be 1on! v uring t nte won de B e Ol o i annexation in t ont, —Omm ~ The infant mortality rate in the Wetherhy Union last year was %nnl to TLI4 per 1,000 lh-\h’ , eompared with 70.54 in&bzn;‘revimyur, 98 for ...

... INFANT CLINICS. The Local Government Board have approved of the Chesterfield Medical Officer’s (Dr. Fraser’s) suggestions for reducing infant mortality in the borough, and they intimate that they will pay one-half the expenditure incurred in carrying ...

... at the annual general meeting of the National Society uf Day Nureeries, the questions the falling birth-rate and the infant mortality rate. The war. she said, had taught how important its children were any nation and shown how serious a matter a fall ...

... thousand the population) was higher than the average for tbs country, while thf general death-rate (15.4), and the ...

... attention been paid this year child welfare, and au earnest effort made, with the help District Council, to tackle subject infant. mortality. Association lias year's rcoord very useful work behind it, and tho year finishes with compared with lost year. ...

... and must grapple with that, infant mortality which was still imposing a heavy toll on us, but which might be grappled with effectually. REDUCTION INFANT MORTALITY. Dealing at some length with the subject of infant ...

... Commission in London yesterday. The deputation was under the auspices of the National Association lor the Prevention of Infant Mortality and for the Welfare Infancy, and was introduced hj Mr. Benjamin Broadbcui (vice-chairman of the Executive Committee of ...

... corrspmdmfi quarters of the three preceding vearg were: Rirths 166, 173, and 18'4’4. and deaths, 16.8, 163, and 15.7. The infant mortality was 101, There has been 65 cases of infectious diseases notified, including 21 of scarlet fever, 9 of diphtheria, 10 ...