... INFANT MORTALITY. During the hearing of a case the other afternoon, at Manchester, in which a mother had overlaid her infant, the deputy city coroner, Kr. Sidney Smelt, made several strong remarks cm the growing frequency of rases of this class, not only ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The recent cold and wet weather has had a disastrous effect upon the health of children in Liverpool. At the last meeting of the Health Committee it was reported that the number of deaths the previous week was 310, being 163 more than ...

... causes of the high rate of infant mortality in Redditoh and district should be reckoned. I think, the excessive use of soothing syrups. These may not necessarily be given in over doses, but mothers do not realise that while an infant sleeps so many hours ...

... without animal food altogether. The death-rate among both blacks and whitheinDeciember was three times the average, and the infant mortality is very high. Privations are beginning to tell, adds the correspondent, and until we get relief in the shape of proviaions ...

... work at home.—Miss A. I’ankhurst (Studley College) said she did not think they coulel jiul the excessively high rate erf infant mortality down the fact that married women worked in factories, because only per cent, the women in factories were married. Some ...

... transmitUd th« mm Mana Finally, It vaa pro rad that nation itaall gran danger to Ufa health, prorad 1» tba graat insraaaa infant mortality lit lav. In aaodarioß aakad, aoold any oonaoiaatlana aolentifio man, after what they knew, defend ▼aooinaboo Oonld any ...

... that of infant m•rtality, which reaches • death•rate of 142 calculated on the total birth.. On this subject Dr. Hill writes :— In my report for 1899 loaned attention, as, indeed, I have often previously dose, to this terrible waste of infant life, and ...

... extent of infant mortality in certain localities, which have recently been made, demand rigid investigation. It was reported at the end of last week to the sanitary authority at Chesterfield by Dr. M‘lntosh, medical officer, that the infant mortality for the ...

... of a good batch of bread. A MEDICAL officer reports that the dumpty dolly has something to do with the high rate of infant mortality. This dumpty dolly is a piece of muslin twisted up with a lump of sugar inside it, which some mothers give their child ...

... d urban was tbi. year a very mild one.. Fourteen deaths occurred in infants under one sear of age, the death-:ate being equal to Si) per 1.000 in. habitants, a:..1 the infant mortality hint* being (quid to a rate of 132 deaths per 1,000 births. Thor'. ...

... administrative county (13 3). In view of the sad tale of infant deaths told at the meeting of the Redditch Urban District Council, on Tuesday night, it is gratifying to note that toe mortality rate among infants in the county was lest year rather low, although ...

... large. The Parliamentary Return No. 433, Seaaion 1877, for by Mr. Hopwood, gieee remarkable evidence of the increaae of infant mortality coincident with the extension of Vaccination I It ahowa that in the year 1874—the last year to which the return refer*—there ...