... INFANT MORTALITY. “We ought to have infant welfare t.litres within reach of all tie working mothers throughout the length and breadth of the country,” said Mr. A. H. Acland, commenting, a meeting London University, on the fact that about 40,000 infants ...

... extent of infant mortality in New Zealand when the society in question started was 80 per 1000, tbs same it was in Norfolk to-day In New Zealand that proportion had now been reduced to 50 per 1000. No one ought to be satisfied with infant mortality that exceeded ...

... the former country, mortality, which in l!feO averaged 17 per 1,000 inhabitants, in 1906 had fallen to 14. Infant mortality shrank from 112 to per 1,000. In Norway the rate showed a reduction from to 13 per 1,000, and that of infante frera 95 to 69. For ...

... upon the nutriment it receives during the first year of its life. One has but to glance through statistics relating to infant mortality and to look at the pathetic babies one so often sees to realise that something must be wrong. Without doubt the best ...

... DEFECTIVE EDUCATION Prisons and police, poor relief and unemployed, aged poor and infant mortality, squalor, irrcligion, seething discontentwhat a crop of lares for all our sowing ol expensive seed! All traceable more or lesi diyectly to the want of education ...

... THE BABY’S PARADISE. In the hope of reducing the high rate of infant mortality in the slum districts, the Croydon Corporation bos decided establish a “baby welcome.” Mothers will bring their babies weekly to this imrirtution to be weighed and to receive ...

... last period compared with the first. In 1910 the number of deaths was 483,321, or 13.5 per 1.000 against 14.5 in 1909. Infant mortality has also decreased during the four decennial periods. For the period 1871-80 the rate was 149 per 1,000 births, in the ...

... fewer cows to the hundred acres than any other country in Europe except France. Dear milk, he observed, means increased infant mortality, and there is nothing that can take its place. In the coming winter steps must be taken, Mr. McCurdy continued, to see ...

... and America, would make for international friendship. Whv not Royal Commission on Motherhood, get at the bed-rock facta infant mortality, and the children of sweated mothers*, and mothers who had to work right up to the day before the child’s birth! To get ...

... increase 1.8. and that female* .an increase of T.€ Measured the proportion of deaths under tone age registered births, infant mortality was equal to 201 per 1,000. This projportion was per tl.ooo aliove the average in the ten preceding third quarters, and ...

... 9 per 1.000, and of the 73,057 males and 70,084 who died 25,795 were those babies leas than year old. Yet the rate of infant mortality was 15 per 1,000 below the average, the actual rate being 115 per 1,000. Although measles and whooping cough were so ...

... report, in which bo stated that the number of births and deaths was less in both instances than in previous years, tbu infant mortality lower, whilst the returns of notifiable disease showed marked improvement. The adoption of new building bye-laws had ...