... Infant Mortality Sir Edward Brahrook presided a special meeting of the council of tho Chaity Organisation Society on Monday night at Denison House, consider a scheme of systematic “health visiting. * Dr. Orav, chairman of the medical advisory subcommittee ...

... boing 15*4 per 1,000. Equally remarkable is the fact that the infant mortality was nil, not a single child of the 104 born in the district during the year having died. The infant mortality for England and Wales last year was per 1,000. ...

... homes in this country the women’s privilege of inaccuracy and weakness was accepted Wh>, she asked, should our rate of infant mortality still nearly double that of Norway ? It was due to an ignoranco which was blot upon years of higher educational work ...

... Birmingham, while rate for the last six years in Bournv.lle had lieen 7.5. per 1,000. compared with 17.9 in Birmingham. The infant mortality Birmingham. declared.'was twice that Bournville. are never it so nice as i/ stewed and served witn^^ Brown & Polson’al ...

... title Postcard. Dr. Slater, Mayor of Woolwich. opened an -Infants' Milk Depot at Plunixtesd, on Saturday, for the sale of starilised milk. with the object of diminishing the high infant mortality attributed to improper feed ing. In Woolwich about 3.500 ...

... known, for how rarely is disease traced to its real source! As regards infant life the new system should work wonderful results. The present terribly high rate of Infant Mortality in the United Kingdom is due, to a certain extent, to the widespread use ...

... below the average of rural England and Wales. The death rate also is just below, but that from zymotic disease, and the infant mortality are both considerably below the average, and are a good indication of the healthiness of the town and population. 23 ...

... it is asorreeted that the assailant was identical in Mich case, none of the victims ism describe law Aa extraordinary infant mortality is re ported from Glasgow, the rates for the two past fortnights being 46 and 50 per osat. of the total deaths. At • ...

... been no corresponding drop in the rate of infant mortality. During the last seventy years we have witnessed an immense improvement in the social and physical condition of the people, but the proportion of infant deaths is as high as ever it was and this ...

... lives of children under one year of age. Within a year the infant mortality dropped from 156 per 1,000 to 109. Then several large lemue ance companies invaded the town, and the death•rate of infante went up first to 170 per 1,000 and then to 180—against • ...

... There were 23 death' of persons over 70, eleven over 80, and two over 90. The infant mortality was 21, and was again over the average for the last ten years. the high mortality for the year being exceptional. There were 176 births, 90 boys and 86 girls ...

... year than in the preceding. This is 59 less than the average for the last ten years, and le« than in the year, 1895. Infant mortality is, however, fortunately low. The nurses from the hospital carry out an efficient system of district hygiene, and in ...