... A COI ONER ON INFANT MORTALITY In the course of an Inquest at Manchester yesterday afternoon on the body of a child who had been accidentally suffocated in bed, Mr 8, Smith, deputy city ceroner, that it was a dangerous practice for mothers to very have ...

... INFANT. MORTALITY IN CAPE COLONY STARTLING FIGURES. Mr Chamberlain asked for statistics regarding child mortality in Cape Colony, and a memorandum on the subject was prepared by Gregory, Medical Officer of Health for Cape Colony. Among other things that ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN GLASGOW SLUMS. MUNICIPAL MILK AND A LADY DOCTOR. Glasgow Town Council yesterday, Mr W. F. Anderson, in moving the adoption of the report of the Health Committee said that they had now had practically twelve months' experience of the ...

... EARL AND INFANT MORTALITY. Opening the new premises the County High School for Girlfl »t High Wyoombe Saturday, Earl Carriugton, referring to the Education Hill, said that. speaking for himself and not for the party, most earnestly hoped that some modus ...

... HEAVY INFANT MORTALITY LN LEITH. Ata meeting of Leith Town Council to-day it was repotted thas momth there were 112 a death-rate of deaths, equal to 17. Eight deaths were caused by zymotic disease, and 52 of the deaths were of children under five years ...

... COMPULSORY TEACHING AND INFANT MORTALITY. Sir William Church, ex-President of the Royal College of Physicians, a striking address Health and Environment the annual meeting of the York Medical Society. While admitting that compulsory eduoation had been ...

... compared with 14.7 in 1908. the lowest death-rate previously recorded. The infant mortality was 109 per 1000 births, as compared with 120 in 1208. Referring to infant and child mortality, Dr Newsholme re• marks No fact is better established than that the death-rate ...

... ONE CAUSE OF INFANT MORTALITY. One of the most important of Dundee's philanthropic institutions is the Dundee Nurseries Society, an agency which was established over twenty r ears ago to provide for the care of babies while their mothers were engaged ...

... CAUSES OF HIGH INFANT MORTALITY. An imperial race could not be reared in slums. (Applause.) Edinburgh had done much in clearing out slum property, but it was a tremendously expensive thing, and she thought the Corporation should acquire land outside the ...

... HEAVY NPANT MORTALITY A’ At the monthly meeting of Lai yesterday, the report of the Registrar enbmitt-d showed that the mumber of deaths fur last moath had been I 12, equivalent to am aonual of 17-20 per thousand. Of these fifty-two had been « ebil: dren ...

... ♦ MAYOR CHECKS INFANT MORTALITY. Aklarman Benjamin Broadbent, brother of Sir William Broadbent. made public on Friday las: some facto of national importance with regard tc bit bcheme for checking the high rate of infantile mortality, by offering .E 1 ...

... at a early period he became aware of a fearful faid—the large mortality in children under five of age. That mortality tt ainiething imormous—sonietimes per thousand: the ordinary mortality being 25 per thousand. 'that fact sliowel the very large fiekl ...