... INFANT MORTALITY. !Attie children must be saved from think. Some expectant mothers imbibed drink. so that many children were not only born in think but damned by drink before their birth. Many Infants died as a result of their powers of resistance being ...

... Quarter of a Century Ago. Local History from the Files of the Herald. iazotarszieDAS A% NEWSPAPEJL Bangor Council and Infant Mortality. SHARP DISCUSSION. Proposed Adoption of the New Act. ...

... inspector of the infirmary and hospital of the l'nion. Dr Dillon will be required to make special inquiries on the Subject of infant mortality and nursing in workhouses and also to inspect the children's and females' wards. ...

... TNB CHILD. The reduction of our high infant mortality is a matter with which every right-minded person must feel greatly concerned. The child in the mothers arms appeals to the deepest instincts of hnnianity. It is truly cause for sorrow and shame that ...

... ov births. And of boys Ixtrn many are punt and weakly. and more or less feeble-brained. An alarming increase of male infant mortality was coincident with the pre-war increase of girl births. By forbidding all strenuous activities. social or athletic—but ...

... years the death rate and infant mortality rate had been halved, while expedition of life had been increased, in the case of a boy from 41 to kg years, and in the case of a girl front 44 to 00 years. The improvements in educational facilities were too manifest ...

... lecture on the national importance of the reduction of child mortality was given by the principal medical officer of the English Local Government Board. Dr. Newshohne. He said that high infant mortality sins often attributable to inexcusable municipal neglect ...

... fallen, though only eery As in Mil, however, the number of deaths from this diststse vx,veded tbai Pom tuberculosis. Infant mortality increased an?twiably ito 1102. The rate of 'deaths of children under one year of aft pe: thousand births with Mt for ...

... and Merthyr furnish death rates of 16 and 17 per thousand, and infant mortality rates of over 137 as compared with Poplar and Stepney's 16 and 15. and 118. and 112 respectively. The mortality rates of both Poplar and Stepney it must be remembered are far ...

... object of this Act was to keep down infant mortality. He did not know whether there was much of this in Bangor, but seeing they had a maternity nurse, it surely would be worth the cost of a few postcards if one infant's life were saved in five years. Mr ...

... • * * The Birmingham niedieal officer in his an- Phial report states that infant mortality in Kilning - 11am is far ton high, and he attri- Lt.* it partly to women employment. l'ererty arising from the smallness of the I. ,, d.ands' earnings was the maia ...

... however, the results were apparent, as in the lowering of the rate of infant mortality. She could mention one town in France where preventive measures reduced the infant mortality in a few yeah from 25 per cent to nil. The pork of preventive medicine ...