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BISHOP GORE ON CHRISTIANITY AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM

... to the social problem. Dr Gore dealt exhaustively with a large number of social evils, including wasteful education, infant mortality, the increasing reproduction of the unfit, and the decreasing production of the fit, and also with modern labour troubles ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1910
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE LATE BURGH OFFICER

... attics in the older portion the town. (b) A general inquiry was made as to the infant mortality of 1906, which worked out at 145.75 per 1000. This was the highest infant mortality experienced for a number of years, and was chiefly caused diarrhoea, 14 out ...

Published: Friday 14 February 1908
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1675 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EDINBURGH AND LEITH MILK TO BE RAISED

... was under the most rigid sanitary conditions, and unmixed with any acid or other ingredient which might cause a high infant mortality. (Applause.) Feeding stuffs were dear, but the main cause of cow>- keeper's distress was tho high price they had pay ...

Published: Tuesday 22 December 1903
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 412 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EDINBURGH MUlSiICTPAL ELECTION

... deaths per 1000 , w Dairy 131 , in St Leonard ' s 138 , asd is St Giles' 167 poi 1000 . In Causewayside alone there was an infant mortality of 180 . ' India Place stood out badly with 280 ; but Cowgate was the worst of all , with S 25 deaths per 1000 . The ...

Published: Thursday 22 October 1908
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1532 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE cruE OF rNEMPLOYIIENT

... Edinburgh. Discussing the effect of the present system on health, be declared that there were streets in Dairy Ward where the infant mortality was greater than it was in the Oowgate. There could be no reform until the oonstituticai of the Council was altered, ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1908
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SCENE AT HOSPITAL DOOR

... go out to work and leave her children to be cared for, she said. But we must face things as they are. The terrible infant mortality is due to the fact that the poor mother is often obliged to neglect her children. The Bishop, after declaring his interest ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1906
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 529 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WEST LOTHIAN COURIER, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1900

... males and 59 females, and that the birth rate was low, only 28 per 1000; the deaths under one year were 11. making an infant mortality rate (that is deaths per 1000 births) of 87; and that the total number of deaths numbered 48, making a crude death rate ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1900
Newspaper: West Lothian Courier
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 453 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

rrAHAORApn AO-VTSRTISEHTOT . ] HPAI . TII E . E 5 TOBEB TO INT . U-IDS AND ClllLDBEir TTITHOtri MEDICINE

... progress . [ PAItAOBAPlI JLBVEBTISEMENi' . ] STARCH POISONING has been Eaid , on good authority , to be the ma in cause of infant mortality . No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth o ( teeth , unless such food has been previously ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1899
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FPEIHEB details of the massacre ' of Europeans-at Casa Blanca , on the west coast ' of Morocco , are

... Exeter of the British Medical Association , different views found expression as to the use of alcohol . Milk supply and infant mortality was another of the subjecte under discussion . _________ • ( p . o . ) THE proceedings of the International Conference ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1907
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 779 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LETTER TO THE EDITOII TUE CONDITION OF EDINBURGH IiYRKS. Humanity Writ.,: was with great i«. Urest that I th*

... bugbears of am race, death-rate from this scourge is steadily increasing. Especially this seen iu uonnactiw with out infant mortality; fully . this death - rate due to dm cause. Why will our public bealU authorities not do to check the slaughter innocents ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1895
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

House of Lords.— In the House of Lords the Royal assent was given l>v Commission to fifty public ami private

... Hollows, 3d. everything but Advt. Terribi.b Hkat in New York—The terrible hrat in New York last week caused extraordinary infant mortality. Of babies who died, over per cent, of deaths were from summer complaint and exhaustion. Mr Kocktellcr, says New York ...

Published: Wednesday 11 July 1900
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 411 | Page: 4 | Tags: none