... PROFLIGACY AND INFANT MORTALITY IN LONDON. Tuesday morning, Mr John Humphreys, the Middlesex Coroner, held an investigation in London, respecting the death of Mary Stevens, aged one year and eight months. Mrs Caroline Jagger. 41 Wood Lane Grove, Tottenham ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. PLAIN SPEAKING ADVOCATED. The speaker said it had been calculated that the greatest number deaths occurred in in under one year old. This was often the result carelessness neglect the part mothers, and so all mothers of experience should ...

... study of infant mortality rates in 141 countries throughout the world reported in the Lancet in June 1985) shows a highly significant relationship between the proportions of national wealth devoted to military spendine and high infant mortality rates, a ...

... 40,747 fewer than in the corresponding quarter 1922. Measured the proportion of deaths of infants under one year age to births registered, the infant mortality was equal to 83 per 1000, this being 31 per 1000 below the average the ten preceding quarters ...

... steadily improving. Last year the death-rate was the lowest on record, and the infant mortality rate was about one-half of that of 15 to 20 years ago. Between 30.000 and 40,000 infant lives were saved in England last year which would have been lost 15 or 20 ...

... LETTERS TO EDITOR INFANT MORTALITY Rate in Selkirkshire (To The Editor of The Southern Reporter.’’) Sir, —A statement recently made in Parliament contained reference to the fact that in 1941 the Infantile Mortality rate in Selkirkshire was the highest ...

... had been rendered largely without effect because of the shortage of nurses. As to Scotland’s record in the matter of infant mortality, he said the figures were nothing to be proud of. They were a reproach to a Christian community. Wherever you turn in ...

... interest, can claim tr possess the model-milk supply the world, says The Farming News am North British Agriculturist.” T infant mortality rate has been reduced 25 years to only one-third of its former incidence, since this city took its x supply in hand in ...

... address the dilemma of more women wanting home and domiciliary deliveries, while at the same time making sure that the infant mortality rate continued to bhe kept as low as possible. “We must ensure that as many births as possible take place in a totally ...

... Scotland’s infant mortality rate to be reduced? Here in brief are the main recommendations of the Committeeßetter housing and less overcrowding; enough of the right food for every family; improved and extended child welfare services; instruction in infant feeding ...

... could be saved. More babies die in their first year in Scotland .than in any of seventeen other countries. Scotland’s infant mortality- rate —77 per 1000 births over the period 19.34-38 —is per cent, worse than England, twice that of New Zealand, higher ...

... represent the actual mortality the buigb. owing to the fallacies incident the method of computing the estimated population. The number . to annual birth rate 16.027 per 1000. The birth rate for 1909 was per 1000. The infant mortality rate for the year ...