... AUSTRALIAN INFANT MORTALITY. The Colonial papers are calling attention to the excessive rate of infantile mortality in the great Australian cities. It stated, on the authority of official figures, that were not for the pitiable loss of infant life the ...

... 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 ...

... INFANT MORTALITY EGYPT. TERRIBLE TALE OF DESTRUCTION. One of the most distressing features of he native life in Egypt is the great infant .Hutnbty. Host of us knew, says the Tall uall Gazette's Cairo correspondent, that it vas fairly high, but scarcely ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN GLASGOW. At mMtinc of the Towa Council Ml Tueedar, muuielrete called attention lha extraordinarT infant mortality in the city. Ttia alanchtar of the ianocanta. ha eatd. was each called for immediate remedy. For the put fortnight the ...

... Maltese Infant Mortality. telegram from Malta states that whilst the general death rate is 26 per 1,000 of the population, the infantile mortality is per 1,000 births. The death rate of children under five years is 53 per cent, of the general rate. ...

... IGH FANT MORTALITY From a report by the Burnley Medical Officer of Health, on Saturday, it appears that the rafe of infant mortality continuss to he the “black blot” on the town. Duri the last 12 months, 217 per 1,000 children r the have died, which is ...

... hod that sabre& of infant morality would eLim its att.*, to,, probably more than anytime,: .Ise, for the dee:ute of Mt: population not so tomb from a derase et the number of births as from the terribly high rite of infant mortality in Fnme^.—Dalsitd. ...

... AVOIDABLE INFANT MORTALITY. Every year about 120,000 infants die in this country alone, and there can doubt that an enormous proportion of this might b© avoided. Poverty and overcrowding, with all their attendant evils, account for the greater part of ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AT BIDEFORD Prebendary Dimond Churchward presided over Tuesday's meeting of the Bideford Guardians. The chairman and the vice-chairman (Mr. W.H.Turner, \ j.p.) were appointed delegates to the South-Western Poor-law Conference.—The Chairman ...

... meeting. ie During the period he had been a guardian he in 1906, the arch, 1908. At the first Conference, held question of infant mortality had taken much interest in the work, and he was passed under view, and a com ensive wished to e ress his appreciation ...

... INFANT MORTALITY STATISTIC On Saturday, at Fulham, London, Mr. C. Luxmore Drew held an inquest on the body of John Ernest Dale, aged 12 weeks, son of a labourer, who was found dead in bed by the side of his mother.— Dr. Shirley Arundel said death was ...