... Infant Mortality in Letchworth. According to the Report of the Directors of the First Garden City, Limited, the infant mortality per 100 births in Letchworth for the past year is 3’17, or say 3'2. In Germany with its science, education, protection and ...

... the infant mortality for Hertfordshire had reached the lowest figure it had yet touched; and this decrease should in general continue, with setbacks in hot summers as in 1904, 1906, and 91 During 1911 there were in the County 578 deaths of infants under ...

... the whole question of infant mortality during the first five years of life. The figures upon which the report is founded relate to the period 1907-10, and the areas to which they refer are those in which infant and child mortality chiefly occurs. The aim ...

... visited, as it is the practice of visitors to watch over the infants in every case where a visitor can be useful for at least a year, and often much longer. For England and Wales the infant mortality rate for 1912 is 95 per 1,000, for the 95 towns with which ...

... able to lay hands on give her ordinary infant mortality as 17 per hundred and the mortality of her illegitimate babies as 31 per cent. In England and Wales | believe the rate is now under 10 per cent. for all infants, and for illegitimates 15.7. Neither ...

... nearly black in comparison with the other combatant countries. He had it on the highest authority that the increase in infant mortality since the war began was almost entirely due to the fact that mothers had been drinking more alcohol —had, in fact, been ...

... high rate of infant deaths mean a proportionately high rate of ‘“ damaged,”” or unfit, men. The latest proof of this was the war census return in Australia, which showed that that country, which enjoys an exceedingly low rate of infant mortality, has also ...

... middle-age and late marriages. At the same time illegitimate births are more frequent in the rural districts. INFANT MORTALITY. The rate of infant mortality for the rural districts of England and Wales is exceeded by 16 per cent. for the smaller towns, 42 per ...

... 4 was recorded. The mean annual deathrate during the last winter census period of 1901 to 1910 was 155 THE INFANT MORTALITY, or deaths in infants under one year old.—There was only one death under this heading during the year, and this was due to debility ...

... of Infant Mortality and for the Welfare of Infancy, I voice the opinion of the association when I say that this would be but a poor economy, for one of the factors in the production of the infectious diarrhcea which plays such havoc among infants every ...

... problems. Turning to what is being done in America, the speaker said that the problem of infant mortality is receiving careful attention. In America the infant mortality for 1910 for eight States which ascertained the figures, ranged from 108 to 168 per 1 ...

... Allen by Mrs. Hoffmann. The subject, “The Ethics of Militancy,” was very ably treated. Man's indifference to sweating, infant mortality and the white slave traffic was, she maintained, sufficient evidence of the need for woman to take her place in politics ...