... 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 IG3 more than ...

... Infant Mortality. During the last thirty years there has been great reduction in infant mortality. This is very largely due to the work of Child Welfare centres, progressive local authorities and the propaganda work undertaken the National Baby Week Council ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. “We ought to have infant welfare t.litres within reach of all tie working mothers throughout the length and breadth of the country,” said Mr. A. H. Acland, commenting, a meeting London University, on the fact that about 40,000 infants ...

... Infant Mortality, According to Sir Kingsley Wood, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry Health, one of the most encouraging sign* of the time© the decrease in infant mortality. To-day it is at low level. Last year It was 75 per 1,000, which means that ...

... Births and Deaths (The Stationery Office, 6d. net), states that there were births and 714 deaths in London last week. The infant mortality per 1000 based on an average number of births during the year was 32. The 5798 births in the 107 coifmy boroughs and ...

... the greatest infant mortality were Birkenhead, 362, Salford, 351, and Manchester, per 1000 births. The mortality among infants in these towns exceeded the mortality among children in the concentration camps in South Africa, which was at the ...

... on the average of infant mortality of 1901 1910, there was in 1934 a further saving of 39.U00 infant lives. There is still room for further reduction to reach a completely satisfactory standard, particularly regarding the high mortality in the first four ...

... extent of infant mortality in New Zealand when the society in question started was 80 per 1000, tbs same it was in Norfolk to-day In New Zealand that proportion had now been reduced to 50 per 1000. No one ought to be satisfied with infant mortality that exceeded ...

... Harding, presented to the Council on Monday, showed that the standardized birth rate had risen from 16.62 to 17.2 and the infant mortality rate had decreased. The standardized death rate had also risen but was still below the national average. There were 32 ...

... very satisfactory, the doctor recorded. _ _ _ . _ _. The Rev. V. Addison expressed some concern about the rise in the infant mortality rate, but Mr. H. Spindler, the Councli's senior public health inspector, said that in a small unit such as Hartismere ...

... of the infant mortality from all causes, using the Registrar’s own method, “True infant mortality is more correctly measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to the births registered3rd, the xymotic or preventible disease ...

... 930 estimated in 1960. There had been a decrease in the standardised birth rate from 18.23 to 16.62 and a rise in the infant mortality rate from 18.80 to 25.86. Total number of deaths was about stationary, but the standardised death rate had risen slightly ...