... INFANT MORTALITY, For a long time the high death-rate among infants in Barrhead has been engaging the attention of the Town Council, with the view of adopting some means of stopping what the Medical Meer describes as a scandal. Circute& containing information ...

... BT - ROH OF PUNLEY INFANT MORTALITY. APPLICATIONS are invited for the post of LADY HEALTH VISITOR. Candidates must not be less than 29 years of age, and preference will be given to those poesessing a certlficate of Matern,ty Training. Salary commencing ...

... largely costi nlat . lh( , milk well( as food for young infants. It is remark- „ , tiol , woll | d able that while our general death-rate i. incn ., wouomy in „, steadily decreasing, the infant mortality ha. , thl) r ,. form / r>) cheaper well a. of late yean ...

... increase of births, a decrease of 3 marriages, and an increase deaths compared with 1K95. An increase in the rale of infant mortality was no» ...

... occasional case of diphtheria and scarlet fever crops up. The moat striking features of the month's report, are—(a) the low infant mortality, no death having occurred under 1 year, and only one under 5; and tb) the large proportion of deaths from pbthisis and ...

... 1899, 155; and 1900, 162. showing a favourable decrease, including, as it does, all ages and cause., especially that of infant mortality. The number of births for the same period had been 1897, 355; 1898, 360; 1899, 6:22; 1900. 323, showing a steady decrease ...

... Assocla* tioo on WidotsiHy, the H.«uie Suorolsry said that thoogh be deeply regret lad the great In* cre*a« large towns of infant mortality, the depatstlon bad not c to his aatisfaotioa proved that this wa* dee to employment la feo* toriee of mother* too soon ...

... eases; enteric fever, erysipelas, and ;diphtheria, each 1 case. Four of the cases were . removed to the hospital. The infant mortality 1 I keeps low, out of 17 deaths only 4, or about 25 p per cent., under five years of age. CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY.—The 154th ...

... that event it might have gradually widened its scope: and, whereas Dr. Robertson can only devise, by way of reducing infant mortality, that, poor people should receive from the Public Health Department their feeding bottles clean, he might have been ...

... illegitimate children the proportion was 219. Although Paisley compares favourably with other towns in the matter of infant mortality, the number of deaths might be considerably reduced. It is safe to say that fully one-third of the deaths of children ...

... ins quoting them, Mr. M'l.aren must blame his friends for :coding equine people who talk nonsense On the question of infant mortality. Mr. M'Laren kindly spree us reference to detazie. and on the strength of some vague references to Huddersfield and Paris ...

... believe, before this correspondence is over, will one stage further than almost persuaded** that under tuberculosis the infant mortality principally caused infected milk. 1 cannot pretend the knowledge, possessed by doctors, of all the varied characters ...