... INFANT MORTALITY. PLAIN SPEAKING ADVOCATED. The speaker said it had been calculated that the greatest number deaths occurred in in under one year old. This was often the result carelessness neglect the part mothers, and so all mothers of experience should ...

... of checking infant mortality, Dr C. W. Saleeby pointed out that whilst there was nothing in our history compare with the loss to the Empire in men, the deaths of infants were in many respects equally serious. Last year the number of infant deaths was 92 ...

... represent the actual mortality the buigb. owing to the fallacies incident the method of computing the estimated population. The number . to annual birth rate 16.027 per 1000. The birth rate for 1909 was per 1000. The infant mortality rate for the year ...

... place in connection with the handing over of the ruin. Sitting the local authority there was read to the Council the infant mortality returns for 1917. which show ed that there had been one of a child between one and two weeks oi age, and births of which ...

... one year old. This took account of the premature deaths which were almost numerous. Hawick from to 1916 inclusive the infant mortality rate had ranged from 68 to per 1000 The rate for last year was 68. the lowest record, hut dared not hope that it would ...

... own resources, infantile mortality is on the increase, and the disease osis is very common. The poverty of the i rot and the insanitary condition of their houses held to mainly responsible for consumption and infant mortality. The follow extract from ...

... Hospital, was received. and it was agreed to pay it. Returns were given of the infectious diseases notifications and infant mortality. Letters were received from the Local went Board and the Gordon Sub-Connnittee, regarding Gordon drainage. The Committee ...

... the very height of domestic comfort and convenience. hear ranch about the spread tubercular disease, the increase of infant, mortality, the diminished birth-rate, and the moral depravity of the big towns, but. what else can be expected when peoph are. ...

... accommodation. There is earthly use in instructing mothers to rear children in the ways.that are likely to prevent excessive infant mortality if the children are brought in houses where it is impossible to observe the laws of sanitation and their whole environment ...

... diminished; and even infant mortality has been lessened, for deaths from what is known overlying have fallen from in in K>l7. Well may T/ord D'Ahernon remark this great falling-off in alcoholic sickness, disease, and mortality, with its saving of life ...

... ended March 31, 1918 there were cases of notifiable and 6 of non-notifiable infectious disesase. There were 7 cases of infant mortality in 1917 out of 115 births. The Registrars' returns for quarter ended March 31, 1918 showed 26 births, deaths, and vaccination ...

... current temperance topics were made by members. Bin. Dodds made special reference to the influence, the public-house on infant mortality, which, said, he considered was the principal cause of the high deathrate. amongst children. SOCKS TOR SOLDIERS. The ...