... attained recent previous yours diarrhoeul mortality. | this rat© was exceeded 51st and week* of 1897. when the mortality was and 272 per 1.000 of the average weekly births. It was also exceeded in 1899. when mortalities 256. 255, 257 per 1.000 births occurred ...

... in their efforts to reduce infant mortality by the , establishment of maternity and child wel, fare centres, and stating that that Council considered it a step in the right direction, especially the present time, when infant life was of vital importance ...

... a certain extent tho argument that the poorest would not attend seemed sound, but he was not so sure himself that the infant mortality was so great among the very poor as amongst those with rather more means at their command. According his experience, ...

... and «aie« iver thousand Che population was 14.3 oonipared with 14.7 1908, lowest deatn-tat* previously recorded. The infant mortality was 109 (ter I nous and birtlp.. as with 108. Statistics given illustrate om sorvanee vaocmarion laws Lngtano and for ...

... compared with 20 districts 1912, and the I highest, the case the births, was Incc-in| Makorfietd, with figures 22.3. I The infant mortality 4,850 was 19.5 per cent., or practically one-fifth the total, and I the rates were leas favourable than in 1915 I ex ...

... liroduood a of 17 0 per 1,000 average Xl.l di'lriots with low birth-rate (mainly seaside roar drattal places), while the infant mortality was rcspootavely 152 per 1,000 births. number aiogotimato children born was 1,196, oqual-to a of 3,33 the total births ...

... districts, winch is also a matter for regret. There seema to be something wrung with our methods dealing with the problem. Infant mortality, although.jadfuttediy oot great few years ago, nevertheless deplorable m many large towns. Nothing really takes the. ...

... where Mousing Acts are not enforced, where the Food and Drugs Acts i letter, where no steps are taken deal with high infant mortality, whore rivers pollu daily, where no isolation have bee provided, and where the recent Small Holdings Act is inoperative ...

... scientific authorities agree tbat the main our terribly high rale , Cannot nurse contemted the oab.es. Thcr milk is and baby infant mortality is simply •«>»* starved and fretful. It t tion. It is not meant that bab.es mother s fault. There is much pet food, hut ...

... population, was the lowest record, being below rate for 1909 and 2.59 lessthan the average for the preceding decade. The infant mortality, corresponding to a rate of 117 per 1,000 births, was slightly in oxooea of exceptionally low rate (115) of previous ...

... nth The best scientific authorities agree that » mam of our terribly high rate Cannjt pos-bly nurse eontemed infant mortality is simply infant starva- babies. Their milk is thin and baby lion. It is not meant that babies do not starved and fretful. It ...

... is still to be done before satisfactory results can be obtained, that much greater effort will be necessary before the infant mortality rate in Preston will be appreciably diminished. But this record of the first year’s work is offered to the public in ...