... 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 ...

... and- the Agenda Club started three years ago, with a view to co-ordinating all the work of social reform. The tale of infant mortality went on from year to year, and was absolutely appalling So much of it, too, was due to perfectly preventible neglect ...

... regard to children. The question of infantile mortality was still the most important public health question before them. Even though the general death-rate had been steadily going down, infantile mortality had not until quite recently, been diminished ...

... individual were within. A social revolution was necessary, when they realised the condition of dwellers in slums, and infant mortality. The Greeks were interested in the question of heredity, to secure for the reproduction of the race select men of virtue ...

... nurture. Man was determined by these two things. They made a man’s living character. It might be contended that by reducing infant mortality, they were keeping alive a number of babies whose natural equipment was insufficient, and who, in point of fact, would ...

... it was confidently expected that Health Visiting, under the Notification of Births Act, would much reduce the rate of infant mortality, as so much attention was paid to the first year of the child’'s life, that most important time. It was impossible to ...

... as the Titance shipwreck was a small thing compared with what was happening all the time in their midst, in the way of infant mortality. Which was the sadder and more terrible, the sudden, almost painless death by drowning, or the long, lingernig, hopeless ...

... workshops. Its death-rate per 1,000 was 4.5; that of Brighton being 15.3, and Middlesborough so high as 19.1, whilst the infant mortality rate per 1,000 births was but 54.5, as against 107 in London, and 157 in Middlesborough. All this, in the Garden City ...

... had striven to overcome some great enemies of human happiness and human health, and tried to deal with the problems of infant mortality, factory legislation, and capital punishment. In the attempt to make hurian life of greater value than property, the ...

... health of Garden City. Their death rate was something like half, or even less, than obtained in other places, and the infant mortality bore something like the same percentage. The speaker then culogised the Medical Institu tion, and the work of the Nursing ...