... care of their children regards cleanliness, feeding, training, clothing, etc., than do their English neighbours. The infant mortality among Italians in London is much less than among their English neighbours. This may be attributed partly to the personal ...

... specially to direct their attention to the lessening of our infant mortality by instructing ignorant and careless mothers on the subject of infant hygiene, and especially the feading of infants. They are to report on the general sanitary state of the houses ...

... years, not only in Dundee but in other large centres of population, about the laree amount of infant mortality. Had it not been for these nurseries the mortality might have been very much larger in Dundee than what it was. (Hear, hear.) In regard to the ...

... good time. Speaking to-day the Sanitary Institute Congress at Glasgow, Dr Templema>~, Dundee, said important factors in infant mortality were insanitary surroundings, drunkenness, and deficient feeding on the part of mothers. Owing to the strike of butchers ...

... which has taken place in the general mortality, and especially in many the infective diseases, our infant mortality rate has improved but little. Yet v© know it to largely preventable. Our terrible infant mortality implies, however, very ...

... on among the thoughtful members of the community. A month or two ago the infant mortality in the Fair City was exceedingly high, chiefly on account of fever, measles, whooping cough, and other infectious diseases, and, while the monthly returns indicate ...

... density of the population per 100 m. the discussion which followed, Bailie Stewart, Glasgow, said a great deal tof the infant mortality was due to> the low standard of living, and until a higher was introduced the people this country -we never could raise ...

... GREAT CITY'S PROBLEM. Liverpool's Rate of Infant Mortality. Liverpool rejoicing the fact that there has been a substantial decrease in the city's death-rate during the past week. From 39.2 per 1000, the highest of any populous centre in the country, it ...

... PENALTY FOR OVERLAYING. Death from overlaying has contributed largely to the sura of infant mortality that hardly any suggested remedy can fail to receive dae consideration. According to recent reports there is a prospect of legislative action in the ...

... With regard to infant mortality, Dr Connon stated that 37 deaths occurred during the year of children under one year. The majority, if not all, of these deaths was preventible, and one must express astonishment at 'this sacrifice of infant life. Thaft 14 ...

... cent, below the average of the I Infant mortality was very high, | per 1000 among children under compared with 144 in the decent f | 1883-92, and with a general per 1000. Combined with the re of ill-treatment to infants j the public this growth of the ...

... died, whereas Dundee had only 65 infant deaths. The EXCESSIVE INFANT MORTALITY IN ABERDEEN does not appear to have been caused by any unusual epidemic of children's maladies. The notable feature of the large total of infant deaths is the number due to premature ...