... Notable Conference on Infant Mortality The second National on Infant Mortality was opened at Westminster an Monday and marks a further step in the eflort to eave the chald life of the mation. In these days of stormy political warfare it is a relief to ...

... the attics im the older portion of the town. A gemeral i was made as to the infant mortality ‘ol 1906, which worked out at 145.75 per Oud. Thies was the bighest in- fant mortality experienced for a number of years and was chiefly caused by diarrhea, 14 cut ...

... 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 ...

... removal the apartments and its contentare thoroughly disinfected. From the tabular statement it will be seen that the infant mortality is still greater than it ought to lie—la deaths under one year out of births. A considerable number of these were due ...

... the other hand, a temporises of tao groups ot wards in which the elate population wee eimilar, but in cased which the infant mortality Webb per ISM birth , . and in the other IN, eupports the view that some • at least, of the of mental &feet are closely ...

... Much of his attention was devoted to the question of infant mortality, and on this subject be made many valuable suggestions. He pointed out that the whole (-wintry was engaged a contemplation of infant destroction, and in view of the increasing birth-rate ...

... have secured a good company of artistes for the purpose. AROUND THE COUNTY. BY SPECIAL COURIER. Dr Kirk find.. that the infant mortality in the Burgh of Hathgate, 38 out of Matta, is greater than it ought to be. He considers that many of these deaths were ...

... bad food are in reality the causes of almost all infant mortality. Closelydrawn curtains. heavy draperies and such things are extremely prejudicial, as they harbour germs. and constantly menace infant life on that account. A common source of impure air ...

... delivered this lecture, which wee received with much approbation. He will in all likelihood deal with the question of infant mortality, upon which subject he has some very valuable gorge-lions. His description of the slum life is of the most realistic ...

... and the Kaffirs, and that there will be few children left when the war is over. Sir Henry knows, or ought to know, that infant mortality in the camps, if above the normal, is due entirely to the condition in which the population was when we took it in hand ...

... injurious to the colonies as well 1000—a high rate, like the lee three years. Tile as to t h e mother country H e regar d s infant mortality rate (denim under one year of Trade as the foundation of our national TePf6orr 1000 b a ir di li s s t l rie W t . ...

... lime diphtheria and scarlet fever. with 9 and 5 deaths reapertively. Measles caused 11 deuthis. mid anterie fever 1. infant mortality rate that was, the number of deaths elle year . f age to each lune birth--was In 1907 it wan 99.7. The deaths at all ...