... safeguarding infant life and decreasing the comparatively high rate of infant mortality. The adoption of measures on the lines suggested have had a most remarkable effect in several English towns, and in more than one instance the rate of infant ...

... Dr Bruce emphasises the remarks of Dr Murray, she local medical officer, who says :— The general death rate and the infant mortality rats are both on the decline, and the death-rate from pbthisis shows a reduction for the past two years. There is slow ...

... untie:l:Acts and tombstone makers because of the improvement in the general health of the community, and the reduction of infant mortality; pawnbrokers because of the imprcved moral nature of the people and their more thrifty character, aid publicans because ...

... somewhat surprising to learn that tbe infantile mortality in KilcsaUie was as high 66 GS |wr thousand of tbe population, while in the mlj-iining Parish of Kilmaoivaig (Loch*her District), there was infant!!* mortality. The lentim of District Medical Officer is ...

... increased. But that was only one part of the problem. Toe other is of still greater importance. We are told that the rate of infant mortality, through ignorance and want sanitation, teaches the appalling figure in Egypt of 90 per cent. The increase of population ...

... large working towns, the benefits of such a house should be even more largely felt than with us, for it is sad fact that infant mortality is greatly increased by the want of care for the young. In well-conducted nursery, children should thrive and be happy ...

... Orphanage at Inverness, and a good many in future will be boarded out under the various inspectors' supervision. The infant mortality remains a serious problem, and results largely, I feel sure, from the ignorance of mothers. Unintentional cruelty it ...

... LmXULANM AT HoMB. GOSSIP TUB DAT. Mortality n* Russia. If there wen room in the pro-Boer mind for any other than the iniquity cf ie«»g>«i»d, the vacant space might be profitably devoted to considering infant mortality Bassm. Although free from war and ...

... above 1896. Infant mortality 'a seriously responsible for these figures. La* yeer there were no fewer than 176 deaths under lee years age. or 47 more than in 1899. It would be very antis. factory, b ay s Or Ogilvie Grant, if this high mortality could be ...

... (applause). Mf solicitor, slid there were housing question, the temperance lineation, and the question of the late of infant mortality, for example. In the sweated industries the workers were almost wholly women, and the sweated labour was done almost ...

... SANATORIA FOR ROSS-SHIRE 6 NEWS OF THE WEEK. MoILTALITY. Lunn., presideut of the conference on infant mortality, which was opened at Caxton Ilall, Westminster, on Monday, .rid the source of the nation's strength lay in noble motherhood, and be suggested ...

... 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 ...