... GUARDING INFANT LIFE. Stalybridge is to have baby show during the coming spring. A short time ago a school for mothers was commenced, the object being to give iustruction«in the upbringing and care of infants, and thus to reduce the rate of infant mortality ...

... a convincing speech, moved a resolution dealing with baby clinics in the following terms : That in view of the high infant mortality rate and the large number of children who enter school suffering from physical defects, this Conference urges the Government ...

... New York has a Division of Child Hygiene. Under its care come interests familiar enough in our own cities —midwives, infant mortality, day nurseries, foundling babies, medical inspection of schools, institutions for dependent children, and certificates ...

... death-rate among infants supplied with stenlised milk being only half the general infantile rate of the city as a whole. The testimomy of the Medical Officer of Health in his last annual report was’ that our high rate of infant mortality has always been ...

... the fact that 95 per cent. of the children it this country were born naturally healthy. there was a terrible amount of infant mortality, and of ill-health among children generally. due t^ malnutrition. The )11•health of the nation was not built up the V ...

... The decline, upon the same basis of comparison, in the rates of death from specific diseases was as follows: Per cent. Infant mortality 3B Measles Scarlet fever Whooping cough Diphtheria sad croup Enteric fever Tuberculosis (all forms) Pulmonary tuberculosis ...

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... work of the schools attempt check the high rate of infant mortality by giving meals at low charges expectant and nursing mothers; and j? lvin / instructions in the care, management, and feeding infants, and general hygiene and t>y other means. . ' , We ...

... against a rate of 10.69 for .. her, and a rate of 12.80 for the Decem 1912. Nine deaths of children under ono gavrs an infant mortality rate of 1 1.000 registered births. There were record e d in December, yielding a rate e Per 1,000 per annum. The annuli ...

... 000 population. There were deaths (24 mala and 34 females), the rate being 14.47. infante had died under one year, nine bring male* and aix females. The infant mortality bate was 189.87, compared with 151.81 for preskua dhrttr. .1- ■ ECHOES OF CHRISTMAS ...

... Colonel Theodoro Kitching. (Salvation Army Book Department.) REPORT E PRO DINGS OF THE ENGLISH - SPEAKING CONFERENCE ON INFANT MORTALITY. (S*. net.) THE MANURING OF CROPS By Bernard Dyer, D.Sc, and F. W. E. Shcrwell! (Vinton.) Is PARSIFAL. SIEGFRIED THE ...

... o f the world. Was not that reason why the cti.aens Belfast should object to be governed hy Parliament in Dublin f In infant mortality Dublin was the tenth worst of the. same fe,n 7 international towns. There were 21,113 room tenements in Dublin city, ...