... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhoea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the contamination ...

... hold London on infant mortality, th• chainnaa of the Local Ouvornment Board, Right Hon. John Burns, who presided, was sangrias enough to hope that similar conformers' held annually would in another lire pars knock down the infant mortality front to 33 per ...

... es of the authorities on public health—who submitted to him resolutions adopted at the recent National Conference on infant mortality. lie also took the useful opportunity of making an admirable speech. Beginning by the true statement that there is ...

... after the usual business was transacted, Sir John Byers, 11. D., gave • most interesting mad instractlve lecture on Infant Mortality, Tuberculosis and Hygiene in Schools. The ommitles take this opportunity to express their appreciation of this lecture ...

... important task is what is needed; to teach the simpler laws of hygiase and thrift in such a fashion as to check the horrible infant mortality, and the worse evil of the increasing number of children mentally and morally deficient. 014 LT the London Tawas gave ...

... functions of private nurses to the working classes; she made • daily round, and cared for the child. The high rate of infant mortality was due not so much to insufficient feeding as to improper feeding, and in this connection the nurse's advice was invaluable ...

... which Sir John Byers had treated the subject. She had noted all that had been said about sanitation, consumption, and infant mortality, and she felt there was only one way in which they could combat the eras of which they complained—that was by arousing ...

... family for the loss they had sustained by the death of kis wife. INYLVT MORTALITY. The Local Government Board wrote drawing the Board's attention to the high rate of infant mortality both in the Workhouse and the population of the country. One-tenth of ...

... the terrible rev- ages of tuberculosis in Ireland. and emphasising the need of more being done to lessen the rate of infant mortality. Sir John flyers proceeded to speak on the question of school hygiene. He said several circumstances bad tended of 'ate ...

... cases of illness or symptoms until these became acute. They bad only to turn for proof of this fact to the statistics of infant mortality. or such figures as that last year no fewer than 9.050 children under two years of age died of measles in England and ...

... conference by Mr. Nathaniel Strains. the American philanthropist, on the pasturisation of milk, by which it was believed infant mortality could be reduced k. agreat extent. The Chairman supplemented the report, and dated that the delegates had attended the ...

... and are doomed to decay it we do not improve our treatment of women and children. But the fact that the decrease of infant mortality is noted concurrently with his decrease of the birth-rate seems to indicate an increased sense of responsibility and ...