... INFANT MORTALITY. te» Henry made a R,5 speech on Thursday at striking BP*** deputation Conference Inxant I the evil was appalling-- 120,0W babies ia. detcriora• d SST that whatever did would be done qmeklyv urged the importance of mil ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AND ITS PREVENTION. conference orgauised Dr. J. C. Thresh, county medical officer of health, was held on Wednesday the Nurses' Home.Leytonstoue.to discuss the causes, etc., of ttie excessive infantile mortality in the south-western parts ...

... HOW INFANT MORTALITY IS INCREASED. DEATH THROUGH IMPROPER FKEDIKO. Mr. Harrison, coroner, held an inquest the King's Head Inn, Hadstock, on Wednesday, touching the death of infant named Alice 'Swan, aged two months, daughter of Harry Swan, labourer. After ...

... ealth •* year m 1941. In fact, he says, he was a dccline in many diseases. Although there were no maternal s 1941. the infant mortality. J'fhough below the average for the ouiHry, and considerably lower .than in 4O, still (rives cause for concern. ...

... minimum standard Bfe for all. ls it possible? The lecturer dealt with, the questions cf sweating, a minimum wage, housing, infant mortality, and co-partnership, and showed the aims and working of tne Society for the Prevention of Destitution, and how all these ...

... THE MATERNITY GRANT. LADY MEYER'S ILLUSTRATION. meeting of the English-Speaking Conference Infant Mortality Caxton Hall, Westminster, Lady Meyer, chairman of St. Pancras bchool for Mothers, urged that custom must not be allowed to creep in of regarding ...

... is the highest recorded since 1920. • Death rate decreased from 11.5 to 10.4. • Infant mortality decreased from 39 to 33—the lowest rate ever recorded. • Maternal mortality decreased from 1.69 to 1.26. • Cases of notifiable diseases decreased from 22,431 ...

... near a German. For the German population, the difficulty of merely keeping alive, is reflected in the high figures of infant mortality, in the arrested development of children, in deaths from hunger oedema, and increase of tuberculosis, so vast that only ...

... ioiunouslv the and homes. is applicable St. equally so portions Wood-stret Ward, we have partly tiie explanation of our high infant mortality rate. doubtful poverty the Cause but there doubt that drink the cause much the dirt and poverty among our working-classes ...

... hundred years have had some effect. Expectation of life is prolonged, and a steady decline is shown in mortality from tuberculosis and in infant mortality, for instance. But medical knowledge has also progressed; the cause or many hitherto mysterious disorders ...

... children of eleven to fourteen years. Courses for teachers have been arranged by the Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality, and many schools have been persuaded to adopt mothercraft as a class subject. The children are taught how to wash ...

... too commonly cause of infant mortality or of physical leagues have founded St. Francis iioapt* for Infants, opened Hampstead the Dochbss of Portland, hospital for the treatment of disorders and diseases of occurring in infants. This question of child ...