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... fighting disease either by medical or social means. The earlier conference, held in Caxton Hall, dealt with the question of infant mortality, and listened to a stimulating address by Mr. John Burns. Mr. Asquith opened the fourteenth annual meeting of the National ...
... cases reaching 100 veers. The longevity of the Romans was due to P high infant mortality. ..fhily the fit xurvived.` By'taking great cure of the young we have reduced this mortality, but at the same time we have not added to the average length Of life. ...
... undernand. for if the weakly and the delicate survive chillhoed they do not as a rule live to old age., A high rate of infant mortality means in fait • low death rat' after sixty. and vice-versa. The ancient Roman had a ,iesa chance of living to 4wenty ...
... Lords on Monday, there was a debate on sanitation in India, particularly pith regard to its effect on the deathrate and infant mortality, ViscountMidleton raised the Monday. question, and complained that a wrong step had been taken when the sanitary service ...
... government. MR. BURNS AND INFANTILE MORTALITY. At the Conference on Infant Mortality which was opened at Caxton Hall, Mr. Burns emphasised the importance of organised effort to overcome the handicap put upon infant life and childhood by the conditions ...
... phthisis death-rate of .99 per 1,000. There were 13 deaths, giving a cancer mortality of 1.07, The deaths of infants under ore year old were 13 in number, giving am infant mortality of 75.59. During the year 91 houses were reported on under the Mousing and ...
... wanted the Act exteneed to additional trades, and a great deal more needed to be done. The shortest cut to doing away with infant mortality, the white slave traffic, and sweating was for women to get the vote and to go to work from that point. (.Applause.) ...
... of their lives in pleasant, retirement a total of 30 deaths, giving a rate of 13.6 per 1,000, is satisfactorily low. Infant mortality, too, is practically inconsiderable. The birth-rate, 14.0 per 1,000, is as high as can reasonably be expected, considering ...
... mere statement that there was only one death in a child under one year of IMP (i.e., en infant mortality of Only 32.2 per 1.000). proves that the proper care of infants is not overlooked in your district. At the census in 1901 the population was 1,883, which ...