... INFANT MORTALITY. FOURTH EDITION. TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. DEPUTATION TO THE SECRETARY. A deputation from the British Medical Association to-day waited upon Mr. Asquith to urge the necessity for legislation with a view to lessening infant mortality preventing ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. In order lessen the heavy infant mortality which inevitably occurs every summer that is at all hot, th© committee of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond-street-, have 'been accustomed to set aside an extra number of cots in ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AT CHELTENHAM. TWO INQUESTS. Two inquests were held on Tuesday afternoon Mr. E. AY. Coren, tho first of which was concerning the infant child John Leaver, farmer, The child, which appeared to have been healthy one, slept with her parents ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN ENGLAND. At a meeting of the members the House of Commons, on Tuesday afternoon, it was agreed to ask the President the Local Government Board to receive a deputation calling his attention to the serious percentage of infant mortality ...

... AND CHILI MORTALITY. the Local Government Dr, Newshoims, principal medical officer of ard, cturing on Tues- day evening at the Royal ‘Institute Sanitary Congress, Brighton, on the national importance of child mortality, said high infant mortality in specially ...

... SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS. INFANT MORTALITY IN GLASGOW. At meeting of the Glasgow Town Council Monday, a magistrate called attention to the extra• ordinary infant mortality in city. This slaughter ' of innocents, said, was such as called for immediate ...

... casuals was also shown to as bad as there was « large amount of infant mortality which means of wise ation ons Gill in die ines te year old. In of Heslth’s last report stated that the infant mortality had imereased. and was above the average It wee above Ip ...

... Secretary with reference to infant mortality in the Potteries were discussed, and the following resolution was passed:—That, while admitting the importance of Dr. enquiry into the causes of the excessive mortality of infant children the Potteries and ...

... children, the nursing of the sick, cleanliness, and hygiene generally. It is hoped by this means to check the excessive infant mortality prevalent in the city. ...

... deaths, rate 16.3; births 767, rate 33.1; infant mortality 119.9. St. John 193 deaths, rate 17.2; 295 births, rate 26.3; infant mortality 115.2. St. Nicholas 137 deaths, rate 17.5; 236 births, rate 30.3; infant ...

... three quarters of the year. The infant mortality last quarter was 113 per 1,000 births, against 96 the preceding quarter; and the deaths of elderly persons numbered 51, and showed an increase of 22. The zymotic mortality, M'hich had been 19, 09, and 08 ...

... MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. INFANT MORTALITY. Our alarming infantile mortality was discussed in the State medicine section of the British Medical Association, at (Leicester, on Friday. Bailie Anderson (Glasgow) showed that England's infant deathrate was 153 per ...