... THE BABIES In yesterday’s issue we referred to infant mortality in Dublin. We pointed out that of 164 registered deaths in Dublin for one week 42 were of children under five years of age. ‘A corregpondent, Mr. Wm. Rooney, in a letter to hand, charges ...

... rate of mortality, and compares very unfavourably with that for Belfast, London, Glasgow, and Edinburghs/ The most serious and distressing feature of the Registrar-General's weekly return is, as usual, the high percentagze of infant mortality. Of a total ...

... A., that we must to a large extent rely in the campaign which has for its object a reduction in the terrible rate of infant' mortality. Accordingly, we trust that the charitab{e public will continue to support in the most generous measure the worll; carried ...

... satisfied parents and offspring will soon exchange the pale, pleading face for ‘the sunny smile of health and happiness; infant mortality will decrease and the waif disappear from our serects | LABORA. Dublin, January 6, 1918. ...

... milk su;fi)ly in Dublin. T Professor Houston, seconding, said impure milk was one of the factors responsible for the high infant mortality in Dublin, and the citizens seemed to he unmoved by what was going on around them. A rtrsolution was passed appealing ...

... Twenty-four were infants under one ylear, of whom eight were under one month old. —Registrar-General's Report. We wish that the citizens of Dublin could be brought to relise the grim and terrible eignificance of the statisties of infant mortality in their midst ...

... remarks in reference to the article on infant mortality in the * Herald.” Intantile mortality is high in Dublin and in lrish towns generally, and much higher than the average of ihe flnglish towns, but fhe average mortality or the Irish urban population is ...

... her. on thie: Death in the Queue.—ln hiz annu port the medjcal officer of Wom%wf&_ ascribes the present high rate of infant mortality to exposure in queues, anxijety, .omotional disturbances, conditions favoup: able to premature birth and oongenital ...

... huts without bedding, furniture, heat, or light. The birth-rate has decreased by one-half in the past three years, while infant mortality in many places has risen to 60 per cent. s The establishment of direct felegraphic communication hetween the War Board ...

... chemicals? There can be no doubt that infected milk constitutes the gravest menace to the public health. The statistics of infant mortality tell their own tale. There is also no doubt that the system of inspection In operation is inadequate and ineflictent ...

... 30 were those of infants under one year. During the fifteen weeks that have elapsed since the New Year the total number of deaths was 2,509. Of these no fewer than 696 were of children under 5 years. Such a terriblé rate of mortality among the very young ...

... INFANT MORTALITY—O! the 169 deaths in Dublin area last week 42 were those of children under 5, and 29 of infants under 1, making the totals since the New Year (2 weeks)—~Total/ gOB; under five, 76; under one, 45. ...