... INFANTILE MORTALITY. The “ Daily Graphic” says—Receiving yester- day’s deputation from the National Conference on infant mortality, the Prime Minister re- of the marked that one Supreme testa of civilisation the keeping of in- It is a test fant mortality at ...

... company included many members of Parliament and doctors. The chairman said the birth-rate of country going down, and the infant mortality was not lessening. Thi-s gave rise painful reflections'atf the future. Other speakers dwelt dangers attending the taking ...

... The infant mortality for the thirty-nine weeks the year 1907 up to the issuing of the report was 85; for the corresponding period the 'previous year it was 138; tne average for the previous ten years was 136; the most favourable previous mortality was ...

... ejections. He also enumerated number of urgently-needed reforms the social life the city, making special reference to infant mortality, street trading by children, school accommodation, slum life, and temperance reform. Miss Hcvssie Johnston was the soloist ...

... ; William James Tbomsoo, M. Kerr, and Waroock. The Local Government Board wrote drawing attention to the high rate of infant mortality both in the work bouse and in the country. One-tenth of the children Ireland died before they attained the age one year ...

... children have not, the time of writing, completely recovered, but it is stated that they are happily out danger. ___________ INFANT MORTALITY IN Out 120 deaths from zymotic diseases at Liverpool last week, 106 were infanta under twelve months, from diarrhoea ...

... that 1740 children died under one year age, and the infant mortality was 154 per thous and. and for the past six years was 150 per did not want overstate Uio case. They had a high infant mortality Belfast, hut was not eo bad as England; but thought was ...

... implied in genef“*-raw the neat four yejs „t life, while lew death-rates hoih age periods ht,)* The counties Wdng high infant mortalities continued suffer some* what excessively throughout the first twenty an ...

... the same peri od Anfant mortality had declined from 112.7 to 82.2. aking Norway, we find that the mortality from 1220 ty 1906 feii from 16 to 15.5 among adults, “and from 95.9 to 69.4 among infants, In France e average mortality was 20 per thousand. Tak- ...

... stated that she gave the child castor oil every second day since its birth. Mr. Finnican said it was wonder the rate of infant mortality in Belfast was so high when there was such Ignorance on the part of mothers, who ought to know better. Dr. Hitchie, Shankill ...

... hundreds the prisoners over schools of physiology and hygiene. The enor- a high bridge into the Tweed. At that time iwus infant mortality largely resulted from there was bridge over the Tweed from Berthe absolute ignorance of child feeding and wick to Peebles ...

... were now clamouring for solution were evils which besot the body politic at home—drunkenness, depopulation, bad housing, infant mortality, ignorance. The wholu of these were within the range of legislation, and all of them demanded iflhthods of treatment ...