... Infant Mortality 1948: 33 per 1,000 births 1994: 6 per 1,000 births fourpence a week in National Insurance contributions 2p in today's money. The employer had to pay in threepence and the state twopence. But the deal did not provide hospital care. And ...

... yesterday. In a ninety-page report, the Council said it found poverty,. shocking housing, malnutrition, and a high rate of infant mortality. ...

... draw her normal in pregnancy is often a cause of the Netherlands and Japan have child allowance. infant mortality, so depriving a better infant mortality rates than O ne of Britain's leadingler of Bris- paediatri• mother of her benefits would only Britain ...

... YOU KNOW? MRS. THATCHER wants a return to the values of the Victorian age—when a third of the notion lived in poverty, infant mortality was 150 deaths per thousand births (today it is 12 per thousand), there was no Welfare State, no provisions for the aged ...

... country in Central Africa. They're needed In Burundi there is only one doctor to 56,000 people. Disease Is prevalent and infant mortality high. For a three year training programme and accommo: dation. Oxfam is contributini £ 11,50-6. For Burundi, with 2GO ...

... today, called Infants at Risk. For in spite of the health service and all the facilities it provides, Britain today lags far behind Sweden in the fight to get babies through the vital first year. The report says: If the infant mortality rate (that of ...

... died in childbirth last year was equal to 0.72 per 1,000 births, against 2.55 per 1,000 in 1939. In the same period, infant mortality fell from 51 to 29.8 per 1,000 live births. Mr. Arthur Blenkinsop, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, gave ...

... inner Authority yesterday. city area than in a posh suburb only a He told a conference in London that few miles away. infant mortality rates in Birmingham's The shocking figures showing the inner city Nechells district are 24 in health gap between Britain's ...

... was simply to tell the difference, Ken, but that colour scheme probably had its origins in ancient superstition. High infant mortality was thought to be the work of evil spirits and it was also thought that such spirits were repelled by the colour blue ...

... vices Secretary David Ennals said that compared with the middle class, working people had twice the death rate, higher infant mortality, and suffered more general bad health. Speaking at a meeting of the Socialist Medical Association, Mr. Ennals said the ...

... Dolly was created, warned that human clones were not a master race. They would suffer high levels of still-births, infant mortality, cancer and possibly premature ageing. ...

... he did not look to elaborate financial statistics. The test was: Had the health of the country ever been so good ? Had infant mortality ever been so low ? consumption of meat, butter and milk ever been so high ? These things had reached an all-time high ...