... The object of the Act was to try and reduce the heavy infant mortality which had lxicome a serious problem in the country, and which was exercising, the minds of many eminent men. The mortality among children was so enormous that every person who had ...

... SA LTCOATS. At a meeting of Holten:its Toon Coatirii Mr Blakely attention to the high infant& mortality this town. olemn by the mediae! Mimes quarterly report and the annual on the health of Ayrshire. Ho thought re tre rt Cotioril should take anme setae ...

... No mother Right to snlslet her maternity. In the presets :ion of infant mortality he believed ibis country sus far ahead of similar and comparable countries. Relatively infant mortality shooed a great decrease. He did not believe that ...

... that 1 6 4 M oaf a total WO deatha occurred wale, Mae our year. and that in omit. of ta their Amt mouth of lac. The rate infant mortality war unduly high for a tmid'? town Tike .‘yr. H. conAtl.mt that then of the Act and the appointment 'jailor would tiring ...

... There were 3.12 death. of infant. limier one tear regimtered in the county (non-burgliall iu the pa.t year, being equivalent to a mortality rote of 96 per birth., compared with 1110 1.100 for 1996 The lowest tate of infant mortality woo per 1.000 in and the ...

... or wrong feeding. Three things lay at the root of infant mortality. The improved physical condition of the children of the nation depended on grappling with the problem not only with infant mortality at its root, but with grappling with it as one problem ...

... would generally thrive well even in towns gins good motheting good food at the wooer dues Mr. Burns dealt with the high infant mortality of Lanesehire and North thin towns which ha was ttrotight about by the fact that the mothers d :hoes districts were very ...

... National Conference on Infant Mortality. which opened on Tuesday in London. delivered an whirr.. On Monday night. and .aid crest stride. had been made recently. both by Public opinion and by the Government. in Protecting infant life. The Gorernment had ...

... The infant mortality was such that in almost every town far more children died than should die just for the want of care or knowledge on the mother's part, and he thought that any expenditure in the way of reducing the rate of infant mortality would ...

... insanitary surroundings in Douglas 9treet, was presented at one of the First Ward meetings this week. It is alleged that the infant mortality is so high that children drop off like lies from diphtheria and other kindred diseases, caused by the terrible stench ...

... LONDON TOP 1( `S. Infant mortality is a subject which has exercised legislators and medical authorities for many a generation. There can be no doubt that many of the deaths that occur within a few days, or even a few hours of a child's birth are preventible ...

... the death rt'e wee 123 thousand under five yews of age last year, and with the object of checking the high rate of infant mortality the Sub-Committee r:ceniiiiend the appointment of a Lady Health Visitor, who will visit the houses and give piactieal ...