... and Child Welfare National Conference, said it was commonly supposed that he was more interested in the mortality of millionaires than of infants. Nevertheless, he had followed the wonderful growth of maternity and child welfare work and had always observed ...

... largo numbers—they are too superior for that. They are suffering accordingly.” Dr. Buchan said the position regarding infant mortality was the reverse. In the Exchange Wa'-d the babies died at double the rate of the average city rate—something like 133 ...

... period. > The milk, butter, and tiou of this country i£>. ahead of that in countries such as Erar>‘' even been suggested infant mortality rate our superior milk suppb' MODERN EDUCATION* So far the bulk of the new public school opened shortly jj Gloucestershire ...

... sent the latest edition of Mothercraft,” a selection from lectures on Infant Care which were delivered under the auspices of the National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality. The book, which costs 4s. 6d., has come to be recognised as standard ...

... persons who died during the year. 250,625 were males. and 245,840 females. Deaths of infants under one year of age numbered 36,960. representing a rate of infant mortality of 64 per thousand births, which was one per thousand below that of 1932, but four ...

... and Wales. The death rate has also risen to 12.1 per 1,000, thus comparing favourably with 12.3 for England and Wales. Infant mortality fell from 63.8 per 1,000 births to 60.2 as against the rate for England and Wales of 66 per 1,000. Diphtheria increased ...

... fortnight* PARTS i, 2, 3, and 4. NOW READY. What Doctors mean when they say that the tremendous infant mortality is caused by improper feeding ? They mean that most infants* foods are of starchy nature and cause richets and stomach troubles. They are not complete ...

... efforts of the sanitary authorities of those towns in which excessive rates of infant mortality stall prevail to control the ignorance and neglect to which this sacrifice infant life is mainly due.” ...

... Health issued by the Minister of Health for 1935, for example. In it we find that Infant mortality had fallen to 57, the lowest on record. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age was 34,092, or 925 fewer than in 1934, and the smallest number ...

... Jervis), presented to the Health Committee yesterday. Last year was one of the healthiest ever recorded in the city. The infant mortality rate, 64, was the lowest on record and seldom, says the Medical Officer, has the general health of the population reached ...

... under live years of age. of these . 214, or 23 3 per cent., were infants under one year. These figures are considerably under tse average of previous ' corresponding, quarters. Infant Mortality, measured by 3 the proportion of deaths under one year to the ...

... in the discovery of some application of some me tion, and, secondarily, of causation and of pr report is a record and Infant mortality rate? v the growing menace of > ate of deaths was the hi£ and Wales during % js totalled 694,563, giving a bl (l'», the ...