... MISS MARTINEAU ON INFANT MORTALITY. Tue fact is proved that, in England, a hundred thousand persons die needlessly every year; and of this number forty thousand are children under five years of age. O! all the infants born in England, above per cent. ...

... belief that men should not be alone in the State any more than at the fireside. Who stood nearest to such problems as infant mortality, mental deficiency, pure milk for the people, and other kindred questions? Surely that was essentially women’s work. ...

... ae tien was [343° Of thie thers eave 00 children under ten years of in the proportion of 10 in 1000. In the le 1000. infant mortality of the whole of ...

... the oonoomitsnts of overcrowded and congested states of the population, viz., a high general death rate, a lamentable infant mortality, and, of courae, condition of gross insanitatiou in the streets.” ...

... the district, giving the total of 359 and a death- aud 15°44 in 1906. rate of 17°68, as compared with 18°36 in 1907, Infant Mortality—25 children under one of age died durin the year, giving an infantile (a eaths under one mortslity figure 1000 births) ...

... chief causes of infant mortality alludes to under the following beads:— 1, Premature birth : 2, hereditary weakness; 3. insanitary surroundings ; improper feediogand defective nursing; 5, defective clothing and exposure to cold, and 6, infant life insurancewhich ...

... Death has be en busy in our midst during the ear. An epidemic o! ff measles led to a remark- one month to | ably heavy infant mortality, er thousand of the | an onprecedented figure p who were well population. Several citizens, known io the pub! lic and ...

... Their High Infant Mortality Tt is a rewarkall fact that although as a race they marry tly ia life and their women folk bear childr freely yet they do not increase t» anythi like th same extent that the great mass of th n does, if indeed, they in epulat ...

... deaths did not excite suspicion. Some time ago Government vreie set the alert on this subject, owing to the amount of infant mortality in large manufacturing districts. At that lime certain relation observed to subsist between extra high infantile insurances ...

... continced I aw not ae | foolish as to euppose. I imagine it requires © pretty | heavy amount of typhus, seariatina, edul | infant mortality to affect cast-metal sexsibi sic Ness, or ities. But all yon Lerwegians are not cast-metal. You don’t all profit out ...

... situation and promote mmmit which will for ever remove a standing dis- ] gtacs'to people and proprietors alike. Otherwise infant mortality will ecotinne; woman .will langnish and din untimely deaths; schools will ha every now and again closed to prevent the ...

... demanded as at present, never did more wretched dwellings demand pulling down. These things are bearing their fruit. Infant mortality, constant sickness among the poorer classes, poor emaciated frames enfeebled by scrofula, witnessing to the defective ...