... WOMEN AND INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS. the meeting of the Sanitary Congress Liverpool yesterday papers were read on Infant Mortality and Female Labour in Relation to Factory Legislation, by George Reid (Staffordshire County Council), who, in giving the ...

... WE NEED THEM IN DUNDEE TEACHING MOTHERS TO KEEP THEIR CHILDREN. The terrible rate of infant mortality in Sheffield disolosed by the Medical Officer of Health in a special report goes to show that a great many Sheffield parents simply do not know how children ...

... mark the true artiste. The opening of the infant milk depot is event- far greater importance than many would imagine. If the venture is well received by the poorer classes of Dundee, it means the infant mortality is lessened, that the children of our city ...

... is tho medical officers of health of thickly populated urban districts cause for unmixed rejoicing. They know thai the infant mortality especially and the total death -Tate-gencraliy will considerably lowered as the result. That thia is so, says the British ...

... regard to the food of infants, two points should be specially emphasised. infant must be provided with food which ig capable of rapidly assimilating, and its administration must frequent, owing to the small capacity of the infant stomach. Now, when children ...

... special attention directed the infant mortality of the city. The Medical Officer's report showed th;d during the past month per cent, the gross mortality was of children under five years of age, while 30 per cent, was ol infants under one year of age. This ...

... Clay buildings—no fireplaces—furnished with dirty skins for bedding. and over-run with pigs and poultry. No wonder the infant mortality is high. Mr Cameron. who has made some interesting experiments in rifle practice when in Africa. was good enough to ...

... regard to the food of infants, two points should specially emphasised. An infant must provided with food which is capable of rapidly assimilating, ana its administration must be frequent, owing the sma.ll capacity of the infant stomach. Now, when children ...

... Glasgow. Dr C. Templeman stated that important factors in infant mortality were insanitary surroundings, drunkenness, and deficient feeding on the part of mothers. He advocated creches where infants could properly cared for during working hours. Official ...

... shall be nursing their infants. is felt that if the mother assured good and nourishing food the children are sure to benefit, and already, it is said, though the scheme is not very old, there has been marked decrease in infant mortality. A Dundee Experiment ...

... (Applause.) He would quite satisfied if every year the number of insanitary houses were somewhat reduced. Alluding to infant mortality, Sir John said that the oonditions of the manufactures of Dundee made this problem more acute in this city than in other ...

... remedy suggested for this was the day nursery, such they were called upon to assist in founding. Another cause of high infant mortality was the profound ignorance of people to how to treat a baby. The Board of Education had a remedy for that; it was going ...