... Infant Mortality. Keferring to the high rate of infantile mortality, Mrs. Irving said it had been proved that the death rate in hand-fed babies was thirty or forty fold more than in breast-fed babies. The remedies taught by the mothers’ schools were ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. By bady Chance. | The question of infant mortality is one that for some years past has been exercising the minds of axil the more civilised and progressive nations. There are two main reasons for this preoccupation : one is humanitarian ...

... TO REDUCE INFANT MORTALITY. Mr. Herbert Lewis, who delivered the opening address at the Infant Mortality Conference at Liverpool to-day, in the absence of Mr. Herbert Samuel, said the Local Government Board did not intend to slacken their work on behalf ...

... walleducated and cultured women is correspondingly high. The infant mortality of Denmark per I.Oum birth*, that Swedes (one of tbe lowest in the world). (31 The decrease in our own infant mortality Las synchronised with the growth public spirit amongst women ...

... HOT WEATHER & INFANT MORTALITY 31,700 Preventable Deaths. Whenever a spell of hot, dry weather sets in, thousands of babies throughout the land sicken and die. In the great majority of oases the cause of death is summer diarrhcea. The actual number of ...

... ItlO the infant mortality for England and Wales w*a 105, for Ireland it was 05 per thousand birtln. This ia a difference of 10 per 1,000. theretore tuppoe© the position of women in Ireland much higher than ia in thia country? In Fruseia the infant mortality ...

... yesterday, of the annual conference of the Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality. wrote, however, expressing satisfaction the remarkable reduction in the rate of infant mortality during the last few years and promising assistance in carrying oat the ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY, During the year there died 193 infants under one vear of age, against 149 during the previous year, which gives an infant mortality of 103 deaths per 1,000 births. This is considerably above the previous year, but below that of 1911 ...

... who delivered the opening address at the Infant Mortality Conference, Liverpool, in the absence of Mr Herbert Samuel, said the Local Government Board did not intend to slacken their work on behalf of infant life. On the contrary they were redoubling ...

... who found that the nursing school which she established wis giving excellent results, and thought that the terrible infant mortality Russian villages might be met by Government measures. This led to the issue ...

... referring back the resolution of the committee M the represantation on the National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality, and it was resolved (1) that the previous resolution of this committee be confirmed, and that Mr. B. Broadbcnt be asked ...

... whilst the other end of the list are the miners, which shows that poverty is not the grestest cause of infant mortality. The table stands thns Infant Death-Rate. Children of Medical Mon 39 Children of Army Officers 44 Children of Clergymen 48 Children ...