... PREMIER AND INFANT MORTALITY. I Sit Henry and John Burns received Downing Street yesterday large deputation from local authorities, who 1 presented a series resolutions reoommending various remedies for the excessive rate of rn- I mortality. The Prime ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN IRELAND. CONFERENCE DUBLIN. The conference infantile mortality held the Lecture Hall of the Royal Dublin Society yesterday afternoon well attended. The Counters r Aberdeen, who presided, remarked, in the course an opening address, ...

... NORMOUS INFANT MORTALITY Dr G. Danford Thomas, at an inquiry as to the death of an overlain child in London, said that he held 300 cases annually on children who were suffocated in bed with their parents. There were over 1000 children suffocated in London ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN ELGIN. Due to Improper Feeding. In bis annual report to the Town Council, Dr Mackay, Medical Officer, calls attention to tlie infant mortality in the burgh, which, ho •ays, continues to excessive. During last year there were 18 deaths ...

... CONFERENCE ON INFANT MORTALITY. PATRONAGE OF THE KING AND QUEEN. The King and Queen have given their patronage to conference infantile mortality held the Hall, Westminster, Junw 13th and 14th, when the causes of the high infantile death-rate will discussed ...

... referred to the work done in the in connection with infant mortality, and stated that the infant deaths had gone down 24 per 1000 in that district, and had now no longer the highest infant mortality Glasgow. ...

... SERIOUS INFANT MORTALITY IN ENGLAND. At a meeting of members of the House of Commons yesterday afternoon was agreed to ask the President of the Local Government Board to receive a deputation call his attention the serious percentage of infant mortality England ...

... rate of infant mortality in certain towns. Mr Gerald Balfour, in reply, promised that, through the Local Government Board officials and medical officers of health, he would endeavour to obtain information to the causes of the high rates of infant mortality ...

... REDUCED INFANT MORTALITY IN HUDDERSFIELD. The infant mortality for Huddersfield for the year just closed is 97. This the first time, far back the records go, that it has {alien below 100. The mean for tho ten preceding years, 1897 to 1906 inclusive, ...

... INFAN MORTALITY. attention of the Home Secretary is being given at the present moment to the excessive infant mortality in certain artisan towns where women are largely engaged in factory labour. There can be no question that the excessive mortality in many ...

... THE HOME SECRETARY ON INFANT MORTALITY. A deputation from tho British Medical Association yesterday waited upon Mr Asquith to urge the necessity for legislation with the view to lessening infant mortality by preventing mothers from working ia factories ...

... 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 maladiea. The notable feature the large total of infant deaths is the number due to premature ...