... NATURE'S MINIMUM OF INFANT MORTALITY. Mr. Herbert Samuel, M.P., speaking in London at a fete in aid of a, School for Mothers, said that if anyone was doing good patriotic work during these times it was the people who were doing their best to save the ...

... BROHCHIAL INFANT MORTALITY A NATIONAL PERIL. Call for Action. This is the National “ Baby Week,” 1n which Aldershot, much to 'its shame, is taking no part. In every other town and hamlet of the country public attention 1s being directed to the need of ...

... that the infant mortality in the British Isles can be reduced from the present 100 per 1,000 to about 50 per thousand. That this expectation is not unduly optimistic is proved by the experience of one of our Overseas Dominions where infant mortality has now ...

... notification of births, with the view of taking preventive measures against the prevailing infantile mortality. At the National Conference on infant mortality in 1906 strong expression was given to the view that early notification of birth was absolutely necessary ...

... NO INFANT MORTALITY. The most notable statement in the summary of Fleet’s Public Health Report, published by the General Purposes Committee for the Administrative County of Southampton, is that which chronicles its complete immunity from infant mortality ...

... of 9.7 for this borough as against a rate of 11.6 for England and Wales. Again, the borough shows an extremely low infant mortality rate of 36.7 per 1,000 live births, while the birth rate is high-17.3 per 1,000 of the population. All these are satisfacto ...

... deaths of infants under cne year of age, were 38 per 1,000 births. O n l y fi ve ur ban districts show a lower mortality. At Farnborough the births numbered 330, representing 16.1 per 1,000, deaths numbered 184, equal to 8.7 per 1,000, and infant mortality ...

... statement in the summary of Fleet's Public Health Report is that which chronicles its complete immunity from infant mortality. Infantile mortality was nil, a fact which is unique since the County statistics have been compiled. I VI The Aldershot * ns ute ...

... in future than they had done in the past. Correspondence in “The Times”’ day by day showed that the alarming rate of infant mortality was due to impure sources from which the milk supply was derived. ...

... exercised of late by the revelations of a series of military and medical blunders, but the blunders of our swollen rate of infant mortality were permanent — we were now just beginning to focus the conscience and coinmonsense of the community upon it. They must ...

... however, to nmote that the infant mortality rate for 1905, as mentioned above, while still higher than it should be, is considerably bhelow the avera e of preceding years. ' In discussing the question ot infantile mortality in the district, it ils important ...

... was only ‘another name for stupidity—was responsible for the ghastly roll of infant mortality, and it was well said that -it was safer to be a soldier in Flanders than an infant in England. It was time to think of the e}_gmblem deeply and seriously. - He ...