... WELFARE OF INFANTS. A letter was read from the National Assoe'l- Con for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and the Welfare of Infants as to an approaching conference in Glasgow. Dallis Macewen said practical steps had already been taken in Inverness ...

... is considerably above that of Scotland generally, and a good deal higher than that of the small town districts. The infant mortality is rather high, and so is the death-rate from consumption, but on the other hand the death-rate from mitotic dieeases ...

... deaths in childhood to one-half their present number. This is followed by the statement that during 1916 the rate of infant mortality was the lowest on record. Alluding to the work of inspectors of food, it is mentioned that the arrangements made at the ...

... mothers; and, in the second place, a home for n certain number of infants. The expenditure wculd be in the interests of the community. If the scheme was going to reduce the infant mortality, the money would be well worth spending. Mr Duncan Duffy seconded ...

... Mackenzie, C.M.G., 11.V.0., of Ord, who presided, gave a short address, in course of which he quoted the figures of infant mortality. He alluded to the debt which the country and the soldiers owed to the women, and said we had to safeguard the future ...

... submitted nip them on the high ride of infaut mortality its the burgh. In 1906 the Jubilee Nitrites, witik the consend of their controlling bodies were* appointed tweet as Lady Health Visitors. Lists of infants udder one year, compiled from the Registrar's ...

... case fairly to the farmers, who must recognise also that any advance in the present price of milk tend:, to increase infant mortality at a time when the country is compelled to sacrifice the flower of its manhood. BRACITIC — Sir Robert Maxwell, writing ...

... the inhumation which weld be obtained by IllearA of the quettion would be of infinite value in determiniug the comes of infant mortality end imbecility. There no &sire to be inquisitorial. The Statisticol S.ciety and the Society of Medical Offinre attached ...

... SANATORIA FOR ROSS-SHIRE 6 NEWS OF THE WEEK. MoILTALITY. Lunn., presideut of the conference on infant mortality, which was opened at Caxton Ilall, Westminster, on Monday, .rid the source of the nation's strength lay in noble motherhood, and be suggested ...

... serious, sometimes fatal, results from the lack of skilled nursing. Father M'Neill of F.riekay, after stating that the infant mortality there was abnormally high, inf irrned the Committee that no doctor had attended • maternity ease on the island for the ...

... care and nursing of the infante. He hoped that exhibition would be the means giving information and creating a greater interest in the subject among the mothers of the commueity, so that all may be done to save the life of the infant—(applause.) A letter ...

... among mothers in the proper nurture of their infants. With the viers of still further increasing this interest it was derided to hold a baby show, and the fact that forty mother , ' came forward with their infants is an evidence that the object 'dined at ...