... factories. During the third quarter of the year in the 76 towns the infant mortality figure was 110, in Huddersfield it wae 62, or 44 per cent, better. This means that there are to-day 26 more infants living Huddersfield than would have been the case if they had ...

... tound to ask whether there was not some sinister meaning behind it. regard to infant mortality, fas contended that the employment of women m mills tended to increase rate infant n*ortality. It was undoubted, said, that the rate was greater where artificial ...

... The report acknowledged the interest manifested the urban | council of Coleraine, and, referring to the question of infant mortality, stated that the association in Cokraine felt itself to bo making the least headway in that department. The subject was ...

... the work. She was glad to see such a large amount She knew of another of good work done. nursing society in which the infant mortality had been considerably reduced since the introduction of a nurse into a village; and there was another thing that the ...

... a big lilt in their endeavours to save the lives of the people. They were only beginning tbe work in connection with infant mortality, but several of their branches intended taking it in hand this summer, and they would specially draw the members’ attention ...

... while their parents spend hardly-earned mone, “that whtich is neith food nor drink. the terrible infant mortality rate of the United Kingdom (120,000 infants under one year o! dyin ig every year) is more than twice that of the mited States of America, where ...

... the public business. INQUESTS IN BELFAST. Infant Mortality the City. The City Coroner (Dr. James Graham) sat Peter’s Hill -baths yesterday and held in- quiry into the circumstances connected with death of an infant aged four months, son ...

... old country” a thing or two with respect to legislatio n designed to protect the milk consumer and to reduce th rate of infant mortality attributable to the consumption of um- pure milk. Last year the Victorian Parliament passed a mi. Jk supervision Act ...

... character in view of the interest ho had i taken in a subject which inti- matel concerned the society, namely, that of infant mortality. Rev. Canon Spence, D.D., in ig a vote of thanks to Sir John Byers for coming there to and efficiency ai mid preside ...

... prevention infant mortality. tbe prevention tuberculosis, the improvement of school hygieae. The fourth proolcm, that of securing a pur© milk supply, has not vet been directly undertaken, but will probably be dealt with indirectly by the infant mortality and ...

... J. .; W. Annett, J. and Hughes. ‘The Local Governmen t Board trans- mitted a circular dealing with t he high rate of infant mortality, both in workh ouses and amongst the ordinary population of th: country. From ublished statistics it ap; that one-tenth ...

... social ethics, marriage, and divorce. Further questions set down in the programme include the best means of combatting infant mortality, alcoholism, ami prostitution. TRADE OF HONG-KONO. Large Increase of Tonnage. SAILING SHIP OVERDUE. Anxiety in Liverpool ...