... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhoea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the contamination ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AT BLYTH. The Medical Officer of Health to the South 81/lh !-i->trict Council has just issued his .u-nti-l report, from which it appears that duriug the year ending December 31 the death- rate was 20.72 — a rate due in a cousiderab c ...

... INFANT MORTALITY, The average death rate of ohiidren noder 1 yesr of age per 1000 birthe, from 1881 to 1859, was 128 in Beotiand as & whole, 91 in the mainiand raral and 86 ip the ipsular raral districts of Scosland. Thae iufantile death rate in the Local ...

... —♦ ♦ INFANT MORTALITY. Sir,—The lettei- your columns a week. «r two ago “Infa: Mortality leads to beli-eve that the people are lx*gilining realiso the i&wful waste of life that going fiom ...

... Infant Mortality. Some curious facts are elicited in the statistics anent this important subject. The districts having the birthrates are Harris and South Uist, while those having the lowest are the first or Inverness district and the second or Aird district ...

... INFANT MORTALITY is always highest among the poor. It is merely the low death-rate among the better classes that keeps the average down. Exclude these better classes and it is obvious that the rate must ns*. The matter is, however, one that ought to be ...

... INFANT MORTALITY I have to point out that there has been a slight increase In the infantile dea h rate, 41 children dying within one year of birth, and due, in my opinion, to an epidemic of whooping cough that continued throughout most of the year and ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. WORKING MOTHERS AND DYING INFANTS. The Medical Officer of Health for Manchester has issued an important report on infantile mortality. The City Council of Manchester was asked the Conference Infant ...

... on Infant Mortality. Campbell, of Dundee, says been saying some very plain about infant mortality in se. Taking his stand upon ee is notorious among the for its high rate of infant ed that they never would 8 they ought to do unless ok steps ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Last year he had occasion to allude totho infantile mortality in the bargh. He pointed oat that the gormal infantilo meriality in healtby towns was 45 to 50 per 1000 births. Ile had ocossion o abow them that in Oban dnring the past 13 ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The subject of the high death rate amongst children was further considered at a meeting of the Public Health Cem• mitten on 27th June, together with a report by the medical officer, who wu in attendance, and statistics for the put five ...

... INFANT MORTALITY CHECKED. Huddersfield has been wonderfully successful in its campaign against infant mortality. In the report which is published the Corporation states that the infantile mortality figure for thirty-nine completed weeks of ...