... present confinement, which is left, therefore, entirely in the hands of unlicensed midwives; for this and other reasons the infant mortality terrible. Many of the women I knew had had nine or ten children, but only two or three survived in most cases. ' Let ...

... The burden fal's heaviest upon women engaged in industry, and this is said to be partly the reason for the frightful infant mortality of some of the texule towns. In Lowell, for example out of 1,000 children born, 23 die under one vear of age. New York ...

... time they had dime an amount of work which. merely fn read the headings lof it, would be a chapter in itself. The 1 Infant .Mortality,' St. 'Brigid's Club, the flreadmaking, Pasteurised Milk. ' The sewing gluild. The Samaritan Fund, The ...

... average wages for women are below 12s in eight processes, and above 12s but under 18s for the remaining fiv© processes. The infant mortality has been over 170 per 1.000. Th© Social Union of Dundee reported in 1905 that of 885 children boro 240 working mothers ...

... seen from the report Dr. BaiHe that the mortality children under one age was the lowest recorded for .57 years, except in the year 1884. This was more important than ij. looked the surface, because infant mortality was not the weeding out of the weaklings ...

... for not less than a month; refrain from icecream and sweets between meals for at least a month ; name the chief causes infant mortality in summer, and toll how and to what extent it has been reduced in one American community ; to know what in the following ...

... improvement in the housing of the working classes. We in Dublin know well to our cost how much of the sickness, drunkenness, infant mortality, and other evils of our time are due to the de praying influences of our wretched and unsanitary tenements. The Insurance ...

... the Insurance Act, veil k,. ihe sanatorium and treatment tnber®slc,aia beutfitf, the subjects down for 'amission are infant mortality, with special resrence to the Fatly Births Act, health of children, thsj mils supply adulteration “ad contamination of ...

... iDo you think infants are properly looked sifter from the time their motlicrs cease nursing them?—f do not. Alt round they are 'badly outraged. Our death rate was a few years ago 124 and now it W to aibout R 2, but the infant mortality is very high at ...

... Controller of Indium-its, General Priwies Board, Dublin Castle. ii • - - - - Amongst the subjects down discusoon *re Infant Mortality, with special retermer to the Early Notification of Births Act, --ealth of Children, the Milk Supply. Adulteration and ...

... within the last thirty years, and none ha-, benefited more than the young the improved conditions. The campaign against infant mortality is doing much for the future of the race by preserving the life and amplifying the health of ...

... which would do mud. prevent sickness. It taught mothers how to chut out sickness. The two greatest forms of sickness were infant mortality and tuberculosis, and their aim was to do their best to help put end to such causes of death. Much credit was due to ...