... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... decoration of Commander of the itoynl Dr ier of the Polar Star. The terrible heat in New York laat week caused extraordinary infant mortality seven hundred and twenty babies who died over 60 per cent, of deaths wore from summer complaint and exhaustion. The Pope ...

... statistics infant mortality. In the latest year for which uniform statistic® available) one infant in every nine «*>rn Scotland died before completing one year lile. In the principal cities the waste was appalling. In Edinburgh and Greenock, 142 infants out ...

... accidental death, criminality; fatal influence of riooholism on descendant—diminution of the number of births, enormous infant mortality, epilepsy, idiocy, nervosity, tuberculosis, stunted growth; increasing consumption alcohol in Franco; (i) prejudicial ...

... comfort created, it would do something towards the solution the problem of infant mortality. If granny were there to mind the baby and watch the children, the rates of infant insuranace would become lower, the family able to rent another -room, and the ...

... number of births during the year; is given at 451—248 males and 203 females—giving a birth-rate of 29.4 per 1000. The infant mortality rate, or number of deaths under one year age, per 1000 births was 93.1 much the same the previous year. Tho death-rate ...