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Infant Mortality

... 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 ...

Tbc t Oort foe data, BhwmutU* Goal BaiMt.Mrf no*. M F*ti± Great Decline Infant Mortality. £40,000,000 DAMAGE, ..

... BaiMt.Mrf no*. M F*ti± Great Decline Infant Mortality. £40,000,000 DAMAGE, Great Fire at Brussels Exhibition. moat striking feature of the quarterly return the Registrar - General, just „ . issued is the record infant roor- Enormous damage was done by Are ...

Low Death Rate

... 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. ...

HIGHER BIRTH RATE

... that for 1937, and with the exception of that for 1930 (11.4), it is the lowest on record. PREVIOUS RECORD BEATEN. The infant mortality is the lowest ever recorded. It is five below that for 1937 and four below that for 1935, the previous lowest record ...

LEAGUE COMPETITIONS

... A *' mortality rate was 53 per 1,000 births * s against for 1937, and wa a now the lowest on record. The deaths in 1938 were 478,829 as compared with 509,574 m 1937, a decrease of 30,745. Devon’s birth rate for the 1938 was 12.4 infant mortality 49, and ...

Science for the Home

... 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 ...

TUESDAY HERALD & EXPRESS APRIL 12, 1949 Famine’

... Service) speaking at Seale Hayne Agricultural College, Newton Abbot to-day. bringing many diseases under control, reducing infant mortality and increasing longevity, doctors had offered farmers “tremendous challenge, said Prof. Scott-Watson. They have made ...

CLOSE. MF.DICAL MISSIONS FUNDS APPEAL

... the ilociety. Miss I. It Wynne, speaking die work of the medical niissionaries in Egypt. said the terrible amount of infant mortality sr, due in large measure to the poor conditions of the middle and lower classes. There was a fir?at ignorance of hygiene ...

FEWER MOTHERS DIE

... decreased from 11.0 in 1937 to 10.2 The maternal mortality rate, 2.8 per thousand live births, was the lowest recorded, with the exception of the year 1922. There was decrease in the infant mortality rate 49.4 per thousand births, compared with 51.6 in ...