... INFANT MORTALITY. Sir,—You have called for suggestions for mitigating the excessive death-rate among infants here. I send you a cutting from the Demerara Argosy, in which the question receives very practical discussion. Yours faithfully, A. The question ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. THE QUESTION. IN NEW ZEALAND Mr. Seddon (the Premier of liew Zeit, I land) writing from. Wellington on. May. 7th says ; ..—The public mind in this colony. and in Australia has been much exercised by what was disclosed in the New louth ...

... of the causes, as they appear to thoughtful men, of the abnormal infant mortality in this colony. And first, there are those who deny that there is anything abnormal in the infant mortality of this island. But the following table which we have coinpiled ...

... the best and most practical methods of reducing the mortality among infants which is stated to be the highest in the West Indies, being although this figure is much less than the mortality among infants under i year in 1906 which showed the alarming figure ...

... riaing young eountryman:Dr Jams read, on the 20th October, before the Britieli Guiana Medical Assoeitition. a paper on Infant Mortality viewed from the records of the Maternity Ward of Georgetown Hospital • a subject of near i n terest for the whole W ...

... cqnceoratel uourishint nt oreNtes pernotociat bAy-power and bLeaube it is devoid of A BABY SAYMG LEAGUE. I The question of infant mortality, important everywhere and especially so in these colonies, has been taken up in a very practical way in Demerara. Under ...

... parasite which nadir the oomprehessive term Worms is accountable, as Dr. Gray points out, for the abnormally large infant mortality among our peasantry. The prospective saving of human life which would pea bably result from a discovery is . surely worth ...

... Saturday Jost. He dwelt the faot that,. in spits of the spread o(. Ettacatioe ano our inareased knowledge of stenitatica, infant mortality re'sallied at.. a Ugh figure,. and eigea, of deterioratiou were only too evident iii the youeger generation. That improper ...

... little from the average rates given in the Census Report as those for the decennium. Infant mortality still maintains its unenviable prominence, the deaths of infants under one year being 390.7 of the total deaths, and of children -4rom one to five years ...

... instruction of girls and young women in household management. For example, some effect might be produced upon . the fearful infant mortality. Perhaps such cases might be worked in connection with the churches, by the ladies of the various congregations. ...

... Debility and Still Births are accountable for 214 deaths; Old Age and Accident are the cause of 86. But the infant mortality is appalling; more than 50 per cent of the children born nut living beyond 5 years. An interesting table gives the following ...

... be the Public Health Authorities in connection with the Infant Mortality crusade, there could be no question of the important part that proper feeding must play in the reduction of the Infant Death Hate. The universally acknowledged value of Virol, whether ...