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... In the solution of the problem of infant mortality we have learned much from France, where it is only natural that, from the persistently low birth-rate, the most completely organized methods—far ahead of anything yet attempted in the United Kingdomhave ...
... of Infant Mortality may be said to date from about the beginning of the present century. In an interesting paper by Dr. Freemantle, the County Medical Officer of Health for Hertfordshire, read at the English-speaking Conference on Infant Mortality held ...
... the publication of the following extract dealint , with Infantile Mortality from an address delivered by Professor Byers at the London School of Medicine for Women : -- 2. Infant Mortality. ...
... moving the following resolution :— • WHEREAS the infant mortality of this Colony is excessive. WHEREAS it is desirable to establish a Society for the purpose of dealing with the question of Infant Mortality. Be it Resolved,—that this meeting approves of ...
... possible way to reduce the infant mortality of the Colony by the following means— (a) looking after the expectant mothers. looking after the mother for at least one month after the birth of her infant. (c) looking after the infants for the first twelve months ...
... following figures will show. By infant death-rate we mean the number of infants under one year of age who die during the year to every 1,000 infants born :— Total deaths of Infants under one year of age. Number of deaths of Infants under 1 ...
... is greatly intensified by the fact that among the children born there is still such a high stationary mortality. The Prevention of Infant Mortality. ...
... the infants, and where it appears necessary invoke the aid of the medical women health visitors, who in special cases may order dry milk. In the present campaign, to get rid of the terrible and, to a large degree, preventable sacrifice of infant lives ...
... . These infant milk depots, which have been opened by several municipalities (Liverpool, Battersea, Bradford, Dundee, Glasgow, etc.), have really sprung from two French organizations—the Consultation de Nourrissons ( Consultation for infants) Goutte ...
... infantile mortality, by which is meant the deaths of children under one year. '1 hat infantile mortality is one of the greatest national health problems we .have to face is clear from the fact that in England and Wales about 120,000 deaths of infants (or 145 ...
... method of rearing children? for 99 per cent. of - the Japanese infants are still nourished by their mothers. Is it not noteworthy that in France it has been found that in districts where the infants are brought up by hand there are twice as many young men who ...
... important of all, Tuberculosis. 4. European authorities consider impure milk to have an overpowering influence on the mortality of infants; and have established over 140 depots for sterilising and distributing pure milk in England and France alone. 5. I ...