... 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 ...

... much of the large infant mortality in the cities of to day. But it is probably not so large as the mortality which prevailed among infants over the whole country a hundred years ago. Even in half that number of years, the total mortality in ...

... CHILD NURSING, HALF a century ago a medical scientist declared that there was but little use in doctors trying to reduce infant mortality, while the mothers clung to old theories and traditions and refused to accept the better conditions that science and ...

... diptheria, had been traced to this source. The alarming spread of tuberculosis is largely to be attributed to this cause, and infant mortality is largely traced to impure milk. The new Act will stimulate the authorities to free the dairies from infected cattle ...

... Population last cenene (1901) Males, 1060; Female*, 1280; Total. 23(0. death-rate per 1000 per annum only B*9. The very low infant mortality is noticeable, m well the very high average death age, which la clow on year*. The average hlrth-raie for the past years ...

... shown in the rates of infant mortality in urban and rural districts. Contrary to a popular impression, the death-rate infants urban districts is not becoming less, but tends slightly to increase. The declining rate of infant mortality in ...

... consideration, but the questions which are clamouring loudest for solntion are drunkenness, depopulation, bad housing, infant mortality, ignorance. Alt of these are in the range of legislation ; and to the credit of this Government it said, they are resolved ...

... incrußse in the rate of infant morUdit within the botimls of the Presbytery. In confirmation of the statement there made, Dr Macdooald’s rejiort refers to the watte in child life, and known the regrettable feature that infant mortality has not participated ...

... 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 ...