... behalf of our babies. The medical officer for Glasgow has over and over again taken occasion to specially mention the high infant mortality within the city. To a large extet.t this may be due to the crowded state in which one-half of the population live. But ...

... highest in the region Infant mortality death within the first year of life was also higher in the Stewartry than in the other districts three babies died making a rate of 29 per 1 000 The report said that the rate of infant mortality across the region was ...

... general family needs would be an enormous chatige for the better in our social life. It is idle to lament over ventable infant mortality, malnutrition, poverty, defective housing, and other, social evils that offend against our individual standards of what ...

... years. Of epidemic there is 1 trace in the town. There was only one case fatal scarlet fever—one of enteric fever. TI infant mortality is high, and so is that of tl but if we deduct the whole ot these—tl old and the very young—we have still a tot: of 24 ...

... on. With regard to infant mortality, in Dumfries submitted the following table covering a period of five years, shewing in the first column The number deaths of infants under twelve months; in the second, tho number of such infant deaths per thousand ...

... picture there is the disappointing fact that the infant death rat? has shown a considerable increase, having risen in 1941 to 83 per 1000, which is the highest figure for the past ten years. Infant mortality in Scotland has always been high, and It is well ...

... proved fatal. Clearly the case for inoculation as preventive measure has been greatly strengthened. The high rate of infant mortality continues to be one of the major problems of the Department of Health. Last year the rate was per thousand, which is ...

... have been attended to. Also, another house at Townbead the drains were in a very imperfect state, but now improved. The infant mortality is still high.lB deaths uocurring in children under S years. In the year previous 13 were recorded. The camas of deaths ...

... critical mind of an c.'iicial. It is not, however, the moral question with which he is primarily concerned It is the high infant mortality rate which he wants to wipe out. Illegitimacy, like old age, does not coifie alone. In the main it associated with living ...

... per day, which gave the people the opportunity to enjoy all the fresh air possible and have a vigorous open-air life. Infant mortality was the lowest of any people in the world, and the death rate was also one of the lowest, and the population was increasing ...

... all is from the overflow of housetops or from all c ohne» flow of rain water that may find its way into the drain. The infant mortality is still very high, no fewer than 25 deaths, nearly a third of the whole number, occurring in chit. dren under 5 years ...

... prices which people and industry can afford There is a strong correlation between energy used and rates of such things as infant mortality and live expectation As Mr Streek says we can induce some savings but on the whole in national terms these are probably ...