... responsible says the custom, if it became general, “might lead to strange eccentricity aud superstitious.” The rate of infant mortality is enormous. In round numbers, . ),000,000 babes never live long enough to talk, 5,000,000 more never have chance to ...

... or wrong feeding. Three things lay at the root of infant mortality. The improved physical condition of the children of the nation depended on grappling with the problem not only with infant mortality at its root, but with grappling with it as one problem ...

... of suffering were few Mortality of Madre& Sentimentally, this was the most question the Commission had to with, and the greatest difficulty it bad to contend with was the total ahem* of any reliable statistics dealing with mortality returns previous to ...

... become mothers of healthy offspring, producing too often instead race of strumous, rickety children to swell the annual infant mortality bill? Much has been said and written lately about the prevalence of tuberculosis and its dissemination, and seems to ...

... questions which had lieen brought before the Congress. He directed attention particularly to the high prevailing rate infant mortality. The figures quoted exhibited great wastage infantile life, a wastage was contended was proventihle. In concluding his ...

... e per cent. of child mortality took place under five years of age, and fifteen per cent. in the reboot period between five and fifteen years. Death under one year of age was many tunes greeter than at any other age. The mortality was one-third higher ...

... rookeries which were national danger, if not national disgrace, and with the con.gested areas which were the haunts of infant mortality and drunkenness. That policy was also to open the land round largo towns for housing purposes. If this principle were ...

... later predace DEPOTATIONS TO THE HO! nay for a time do Mr Aaquith, replying .to- ep, bat we know ng over stretched — infant mortality, hall have to pay | Veation we ror days, Does at certain period, said m better than themselves would not view breadwinners ...

... Folson, New Mexico, but no serious damage reported.— Reuter, BARRHEAD TOWN COUNCIL AND INFANT MORTALITY. MRDICAL OFFICER'S For » long time the ueath-rate among infants Barrhead has been engaging the attention of the Town Council, with the view of adopting ...

... occasional case of diphtheria and scarlet fever crops up. The moat striking features of the month's report, are—(a) the low infant mortality, no death having occurred under 1 year, and only one under 5; and tb) the large proportion of deaths from pbthisis and ...

... will take place on Monday. the 23rd January, when he will deliver his nutugural address. What is the Great Secret of Infant Mortality? It differs with times and seasons, but the chief I permanent factor 4 Tuberculosis, which recent investigation has shows ...

... is passed in neglect and privation tlOl~, happily for them, they go to swell the numbers of our infant mortality. Even set down in cold figures, the mortality among this class of children is startling enough— o ver 50 per cent of the whole number of deaths ...