INFANT MORTALITY
... INFANT MORTALITY. WORKING MOTHERS AND DYING INFANTS. The Medical Officer of Health for Manchester has issued an important report on infantile mortality. The City Council of Manchester was asked the Conference Infant ...
... INFANT MORTALITY. WORKING MOTHERS AND DYING INFANTS. The Medical Officer of Health for Manchester has issued an important report on infantile mortality. The City Council of Manchester was asked the Conference Infant ...
... BATHGATE S HIGH INFANT MORTALITY IN 1908. ' UNDUE ADVANTAGE TAKEN OF VACCINATION CONSCIENTIOUS CLAUSE. Dr Robert Kirk, M.D., medical of for the burgh of Bathgate, has now prepared his annual report on the health the burgh for the year ending Slat December ...
... Edinburgh. FLIES AND INFANT MORTALITY, Dr J. T. C. Nash, the Medical Officer of Health for Southend, contributes to the October number of tho “Journal of tho Royal Sanitary Institute” an important and suggestive paper upon “The Waste of Infant Life, in which ...
... Eightyfive per cent, of child mortality takes place under five years of age and 15 per cent, in school period between five and fifteen years. Death under one year of age is many times greater than any other age. The mortality is one-third higher in urban ...
... EXCHANGE. BATHGATE, On-MONDAY, sth DECEMBER. Bv BaMie W. F. ANDERSON, ex-Convener of Public Health, Glasgow. Subject—“ INFANT MORTALITY ; OR THE WASTAGE OF HUMAN LIFE.’* To bo Illustrated bv specially prepared Lime-Light Views. Chairman—Dr KIRK, Medical ...
... of infancy, and to smaller degree in after years. Owing to the progress of hygiene and medical science, the causes of infant mortality have been largely eliminated, the reefs at the commencement of the voyage of life are in the main avoided, and the average ...
... VENTILATING THE NURSERY. The tremendous proportion of infant mortality in town slums, compared to country cottages, is, says the .Mother's Magazine* directly predisposed to overcrowding and lack of pure air. The nursery, both day and night, can hardly ...
... classes, and to the precautions taken to prevent the spread of infectious disease. Proceeding, rite report stated that infant mortality was still greater than ought to be. 38 deaths under one year out of 287 births having taken place. A considerable number ...
... INTERESTING LECTURE IN BATHGATE. Under the auspices St David’s U.F. Church Union, a entitled Infant Mortality, th© Wastage of Human Life,” was given the Com Excliarnge Monday evening by Bailie W- F. Anderson, ex-convener of Pubkic Health of the city of ...
... 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 ...
... Commenting on these two points, Lord Rosebery spoke of the excessive infant mortality of Glasgow, which he regarded great reproach to community. It bad been said that the mortality Glasgow was doe to the smoke. The change the atmospherio conditions from ...
... In the CORN EXCHANGE. BATHGATE, MONDAY, DECEMBER. Bailie W. F. ANDERSON, ex-Convener Public Health, Glasgow. Subject—“ INFANT MORTALITY ;OR THE WASTAGE OF HUMAN LIFE. To be Illustrated bv specially prepared Lime-Light Views. . Chairman—Dr KIRK, Medical ...