... The shame of Britain’s infant mortality rate. EVERY year thousands of babies die in-their first week of life. But many of them could survive if their mothers took advantage of the health services available. So says Dr Stephen Mackenzie, South - East Kent ...

... RISE IN INFANT MORTALITY NEARLY 33 OF 1,000 BIRTHS bias expressed at the annual. ! member of Nationalassembly ! , 'Hieer of Hythe East and West Ash, in, Dr. Bilda Blade. meeting of the Ashford branch !s av i iigg ,spmbly Mr. 11. and E llia of the National ...

... TRIED He said that although the infant mortality rate had been declining there was still room for improvement in the district. Formerly the Willesborough Hospital at Ashford had to cope ...

... ** * * INFANT mortality rate In Rant/ate last year aas almost double the average in the country as a %%hole. reports M.O 11. Dr. Hrneklehurst in his annual report. Largest number of deaths ass due to misadventure. ONE of Minster's hest- 'nun. and Mrs ...

... lhara rural districts and of Ilythe, Dr. Hilda Brade-Birks, Medical Officer for the combined areas, referred to the high infant mortality rate during 1952. For the first year of life, ft Wag 32.20 per 1,000 estimated birth , . against 27.60 for the whole ...

... HEALTHY SIGNS: Death rate in Canterbury is 10.19 per thousand population, compared to 11.7 for the rest of the count!). And infant mortality rate is 15.5 against an average of 19 for England and Wales. ...

... per 1,000 was just above the national figure. largely due to two county hospitals for old people being in the area. The infant mortality rate of 17.94 per 1,000 births, was a great improvement on the 1952 figure of 52.20. In housing. there were signs that ...

... you think you've got problems, take a long, hard look at this pitiful youngster. lie's a typical product of areas where Infant mortality and mainutrition are rife, where babies die because thity can't get enough to eat. But now you can help. Andrew Porter ...

... birth care and family planning have helped -to keep maternal mortality low. Here Britain has been falling steadily behind other countries in the past few years. In 1960 the infant mortality rate was 22 per cent higher in France but by 1972 the Frernich ...

... a food-borne virus which attacks the Ashford’s Health Week took place in the Assembly Rooms on Tuesday afternoon. The infant mortality rate per thousand births was 63, against an average of 74 in England and Wales. There were two cases of scarlet fever ...

... National schools have been closed. THE Romney Marsh medical officer said in his report that he was concerned about the high infant mortality on the Marsh, 106.3 per 1,000 children born failing to reach one year. TWO youths, students at Wye College, were fined ...

... proceeding apace. Smallpox, hopefully, will soon be in the history books, but a large number of killer diseases remain and infant mortality in many countries remains far too high. Effective, cheap, simple family planning for those who want it is all too often ...