... Infant Mortality. Keferring to the high rate of infantile mortality, Mrs. Irving said it had been proved that the death rate in hand-fed babies was thirty or forty fold more than in breast-fed babies. The remedies taught by the mothers’ schools were ...

... Infant Mortality. Infant mortality in the first four weeks of life ”• was the subject of a paper read by Dr. Henry Koplik, of New York. Dr. Koplik said there were many conditions both the father and the mother which resulted in the production of an infant ...

... INFANT MORTALITY, LEGISLATION LOR CARE MOTIIERS AND CHILDREN. House of Commons, yesterday, Mr. Anderson asked the President of the Locci Government Board whether the increase in rate of infantile mortality is partly or largely due the shortage of nurses ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Mil JOHN BDKNS’S WAY WITH SOFFKAGIBTS. A nnblic meeting was held yesterday m axton A puobc raceix formation l?all, estmmstei, r w rrcYClltion of National Association Promotion of the Infant Mortality l ' Welfare of u , , f^al Mr. John ...

... attention to the districts where infantile mortality is prevalent. Mr. Chambers said that a great many infants died not through neglect, but because of the parents’ ignorance. Taking the figures of in- ‘ant mortality in Conisborough and Denaby, he pointed ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AT CROWLE. At the monthly meeting of Crowle Urban Sistrict Couneil it was stated that the County Meodical- Officer had called attention to the high rate of infant mortality during the year—l9l.3B per 1,000 births. Dr. Hamilton considered ...

... TO REDUCE INFANT MORTALITY. Mr. Herbert Lewis, who delivered the opening address at the Infant Mortality Conference at Liverpool to-day, in the absence of Mr. Herbert Samuel, said the Local Government Board did not intend to slacken their work on behalf ...

... HOT WEATHER & INFANT MORTALITY 31,700 Preventable Deaths. Whenever a spell of hot, dry weather sets in, thousands of babies throughout the land sicken and die. In the great majority of oases the cause of death is summer diarrhcea. The actual number of ...

... DERBYSHIRE. CHESTERFIELD. At Chesterfield during the past quarter the infant mortality ‘was at the rate of 136 per 1,000 children born, compared with a rate of 71 for the corresponding period of last year. The price agreed upon for the purchase by Ch ...

... numbers. The birth irate was very low, but infant mortality mbs shockingly high. Clearly this preventable mortality must be prevented. To raise the birth-rate might or might be feasible, but an immense saving infant life was certainly feasible at any time ...

... INFANT MORTALITY MAivXNG GOOD THE LOSSES IN THE WAR. A meeting was held Guildhall, London, yesterday, to promote the welfare of motherhood and infancy. Local administrativo authorities in all parts of the kingdom were represented by Mayors, Medical Officers ...

... AUGUST 5. 1913. CARE OF BABIES. GREAT ENGLISH-SPEAKING CONFERENCE. SHEFFIELD PAPER. The English-Speaking Conference on Infant Mortality mef yesterday, Caxton Hall, Westminster. All the Colonies and Dependencies are represented, and the deliberations are ...