... want better houses. The improper feeding infants was unfortunately only too common, and a coroner's jury, sitting on a poor unfortunate infant, had helped emphasise the fact that boiled bread w.%s not lit for infants. Insufficent supply of milk was be regretted ...

... early part ef year. The rate for the past seven days was per 1,000 and the figure was not unduly excessive. The rate of infant mortality was 103 per 1,000 births against an average for seven years of 79 per 1,000. The ages at which death occurred were : ...

... En-dand and Wales was 1.29. The number deaths of infants under one year old was 15 giving an infant mortality of 77.32 pe-1.000 children born. The rate for England and Wales was 121 per 1,000. The infant mortality is higher than it was last ...

... but any wrong-doing by unions must be resolutely opposed. Dealing with the terrible inciease the death-rate, especially infant mortality, through the ove: crowding ci.ies, the President expressed the Opinion that married women should not work in factories ...

... the question of the °rig children employed in waTS - He declared j stood far ahead of other \ jegard general mortality, infant mortality the position 8^, lsf actory, and in some districts tf,r ribly high. There was fre- of laTr Prohibiting the achinery ...

... points. The infant mortality per 1.000 births was the lowest recorded in five years. In the rural districts the birth rate was the lowest recorded four years, and the death rate was a fraction under the average for the same.period. The infant death rate ...

... LEGALISED MURDER. Newton Guardians and Infant Mortality STARTLING STATEMENTS. The question of infantile mortality by overlaying, so far as the country is concerned, generally, was discussed ...

... were 120 children on the books. Althoagh commenced so late iv the season the effect the infant mortality and diarrhosi rate has been marked. The infant mortality rate for St Helen's in 1899 was 157 per 1,000 births, against a mean rate of 172 in the preoediag ...

... *' 000 - The number of deaths regis- Vv-UOfj- equivalent rate of 12.4 per rate for the previous ten years 1-000. The infant mortality !, uV,,- er 1.000 births. The rate wis- ~R ten ' 0 than baif the rate for the prev3*. years ' which was 103.7 per 1,000 ...

... prevalence of cases of this descr'ptioD. and strongly animadvertel on tbe conduct C* Mis. Mountjoy and her daughter Amy- Infant mortality was getting to such terrible proportions that it was their duty to returnsuch verdict, in accoid with the evidence, that ...

... system of preventive medicine. Professor Kenwood will spe.ak Reduction Infant Mortality by better management and control of the milk supply-' He urges that a great waste of infant life results from the use of raw milk. The present supply can (and must) ...

... warm friends the Association. »P »- (Wellington) spoke on Infant Mortality, emphasising the great need of educational work among those responsible for the care, feeding, and nursing of infants. ANNUAL REPORTS. The Committee's annual report, read hy Airs ...