Infant Mortality

... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhcea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the contamination ...

INFANT MORTALITY

... INFANT MORTALITY. There had been 14 deaths of children under one year, which gave a mortality rate of 53.23 per 1,000 births, a decrease of 2,12 from that of last year. Fifty-four cases of infectious diseases had been notified during the year, a decrease ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1928
Newspaper: Morpeth Herald
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 790 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Alcohol and Infant Mortality

... Alcohol and Infant Mortality . Mises J L Foster Newton -- la order to remove the grave doubts of Mr. Ilartaborne regarding the accuraoy the figures that 55 per cent of children of alcoholic parentage dui under two years age. - may 1 state that there ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1917
Newspaper: Richmond and Twickenham Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Alcohol and Infant Mortality

... Alcohol and Infant Mortality Miss Futter Newtoc writes:— The opinion of Mr. E. Lt. Turner that only an immoderate indulgence in alcoholic drinks aggravated the dangers of syphilis - not borne out by the Royal on Venereal Diseases. The Commissioners state ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1917
Newspaper: Richmond and Twickenham Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LOW INFANT MORTALITY

... LOW INFANT MORTALITY The infant mortality rate was 36 per 1.000 live births. “This low rate is very gratifying and is evidence that new arrivals are being well cared for,” writes Dr. J. Young. Five of 49 pneumonia sufferers died. “I think that the number ...

Lowest-ever infant mortality rate

... There were 261 deaths of children under one year of age. The infant mortality rate was 15 per thousand live births — the lowest ever recorded — and the neo-natal morality rate (deaths of infants aged under four weeks) was 12, which is one below the rate ...

Published: Friday 20 February 1976
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 322 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

DRAMATIC DECREASE IN INFANT MORTALITY

... DRAMATIC DECREASE IN INFANT MORTALITY - SAYS HEALTH SERVICE REPORT More people were treated in hospital in 1983 than ever before, the NHS employed more staff and the infant mortality rate was the lowest ever recorded. These are among the many facts contained ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1985
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 995 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Infant mortality rate jumps

... Infant mortality rate jumps IQOR 15 months Melton has been without an additional Public Health Inspector. Since June 30, 1959, when that official resigned, there has been no qualified assistant in the Public Health Department of Melton U.D.C., and certain ...

INFANT MORTALITY LOWEST EVER

... INFANT MORTALITY LOWEST EVER The infant mortality rate for the third quarter of 1950—33 per 1000 live births—was the lowest ever recorded in Scotland. This was stated in a preliminary statement on Scottish vital statistics issued by the Registrar-General ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

VACCINATION AND INFANT MORTALITY. {To Ta» Worrom.}

... VACCINATION AND INFANT MORTALITY. {To Ta» Worrom.} | _Sir,—At a recent meotin%:l the Bourne (Lincoin) Urban Couneil, . Gilpin, the Medical Officer of Health, in his annual repert, stated that: “the mortality amongst infants shows a satisfactory decline ...

Infant mortality figure highest ior 30 years

... Infant mortality figure highest ior 30 years \LNchK‘s infant mortality rate is the highest for 30 years, il 4\ was revealed when the annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Joha McCormack, for 1962, was accepted without question by the Urban ...

Published: Friday 12 July 1963
Newspaper: Morpeth Herald
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 2 | Tags: none