... A mystery why infant mortality is so high MR. HERBERT Robinson, chairman of the Antrim County Health Committee, h a s expressed concern at the high infant mortality rate in Northern Ireland Al the monthly meeting of the committee the chairman drew the ...

... The infant mortality rate is very high because of the terrible conditions in which they live. Human rights should be extended to travelling people equally with the rest of the com. munity. To deplore the fact that these people take waterthe basic amenitty ...

... expectancy Ue, and the good health infants and children, daring the course of a lecture In BaDrmraa Town Hall on Monday. “Over a period of 30 years there has been a dramatic decrease in the rate of infant mortality,” added, attributing this to the new ...

... Tespectively. Infant mortality (deaths of children under one year of age) accounted for 231 (222) deaths, giving a rate of 26 (25) per 1,000 live births. Two-thirds of these deaths occurred within the first 28 days of life. Comparative infant mortality rates ...

... P YOU ARE LIVING LONGER Local infant mortality rate pmsecuthnis I in 3o years The improvement scheme at Hanyvilh Bridge, Ballymena, is nearing completion and add* considerably to its width. Tenant retains /' _ .Jfi --p. .A. * i '•• 1 ■«i mmmmr f * * ...

... S Minister rapped over infant deaths THE Government has been attacked for a lack of response to the recent report on infant mortality in Northern Ireland, ‘You and Your Baby'. The Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance has condemned the Government's ...

... A question of life and death The birth, death, infant mortality neonatal mortality and marriage rates in Northern Ireland for the quarter ended March 31, 1977. are all lower than in the corresponding period of 1976. according to the Registrar General's ...

... do today under suc adverse conditions, what will thmfs be like even on an Ulster Vegetarian Society-style diet, with infant mortality reduced to mere meat-eating Britain levels; but then don’t common sense and civilisation often go hand in hand. Yours ...

... of bog and heath fires and fire services had a Dbusy time. The death. rate (9.4 per 1,000 of the population) and the infant mortality rate (36 per 1,000 live births) in Northern Ireland during the quarter ended September 1950 were the lowest ever recorded ...

... during the corresponding quarter 1956. Deaths of infants under one year numbered fewer than in the first quarter of last year and the lowest, figure ever recorded for the first three months. The infant mortality rate 35 deaths per 1.000 live births shows a ...

... agricultural economy. But the achievements of Government are brought home most directly at the personal level—a decline in infant mortality means many children alive to-day who would have died a generation ago ; our great campaign against tubercul'sis has been ...

... Eighty-five per cent of the adults are illiterate and life expectancy is 47 years with a population growth of 2.Bpc. The infant mortality rate is 125 per 1,000 live births. ...