... month's rate was 14~61, and five previous Decembers averaged 19' SO. Infant mortality was considerable; but the unfavourable figures were mainly drawn from the Old Town, where the mortality in December was 35'11, contrasted with 13'£f> the same period of ...

... quickly drives away Eruptions, Pimples, Eczema, Blackheads, and all Disfigurements.—Aevt.. SAW FRANCISCO'S INFANT MORTAWTT. —The mortality infants the Saji Francisco disaster wa* appalling through milk being unobtainable. BORWICK'S I The 6d SIZE i* LARGER ...

... it is now felt to be the imperative duty of Town Councils to make every effort to grapple with the serious problem of infant mortality. Questions of a serious domestic nature are now finding their way into the municipal arena, questions of health and dizease ...

... sentenced prisoner to three months' bard labour. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFANT MORTALITY. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Conference on Infantile Mortality was held in London yesterday. In view of the success attending the 1906 ...

... last year was a most remarkably healthy one, with perhaps- smallest deathrate recorded for the last well the smallest infant, mortality rate, and also being free from epidemics ot all kinds. The report was considered A proposal amalgamate three divisions ...

... in the stunted lives the young, and, even more darkly, in the statistics infant mortality. In 1902 select the latest year for which uniform statistics are available) one infant in every nine born in Scotland died before completing one year of life. In ...

... recommends a children's bureau under one of the Departments of the tat., which will Investigate the welfare of children, infant mortality, degeneracy, and child labour. : A HODSRXIRPRR ON STRIBE.—At Willesden an old gentleman complained that his housekeeper ...

... fashion by the figures of infant mortality. This is a blot on our civilisation wherever a congested population is found. Possibly. as the result, in some mieasure, of the calling of public attonrtion to the ghastly waste of infant life, and probably more ...

... trade, and greater demand for woman labour in the mills has, in the medical officer's opinion, led to an increase in the infant mortality rate at Preston. He holds that there is no efficient substitute for a mother's care and devotion; and times of bad trade ...

... His statistics were something to make one shudder. While the ordinary death-rate in the city is about 25 per 1000, the infant mortality rises to 200 per 1000. That is to say, for every barefooted, ragged, hardy little urchin 1 who run* about the street* ...

... closeness of the connection between the wretched housing conditions of the people, the drink question, the appalling infant mortality, and the degradation of slum life. Mr Sherwell, as an outsider, is perplexed at the spectacle which social Scotland pre'sents ...

... j'ear. The Bill was passed for three years, the President stating it did not require Royal sanction. GLASGOW AND THE INFANT MORTALITY PROBLEM. Glasgow Town Council this afternoon an important appointment was made the selection of a lady doctor to act ...