... , as is wel! known, a potent factor in the dissemination of a number of serious diseases, and has great influence on infant mortality. Since the inception of the National League for Physical Eduncation and lmmflnem in 1905, the question of pure milk occupied ...

... and intelligence, ’mmed unable to check the loss of na ional wealth which was invelved 1n our abnor‘maily high rate of infant mortality. } Yet year by year the sacrifice of possible lives went op,and « ...

... Geo. Newman was chief medical officer of the Board of Education in 1907, and is a recognised authority om hygiene and infant mortality. Mr. Arthur Priestley has represented Grantham in Parliament for the past ten years. 3 Dr. John M. Redmond is closely ...

... death-rate for 1910 was 20 per cent. lower than for 1900. Much of this reduction is due to the decrease in infant mortality. ‘The saving of infant life in 1910, as compared with the period 1896-1900, is estimated to be no less than 45120. That is to say ...

... improved. The questions of black smoke and scuvm(hg‘ in linsley were also matters which had be dealt with, whilst the infant mortality rate %«-n{ was entirely ansntb:mz. n ...

... births registered in 190 thaw in 15%. Measured by the Dproportion of deaths under one year to 1.000 Tegistered births the infant mortality was 22; 1899, 178; average for last ten years 179; England and Walea, 1900, 164. I lament sach an excessive child death-rate ...

... \ - THE HIPPODROME. l There many star {urns at the Hippoi 00l gy B = ife 8 THE HEAVY INFANT MORTALITY fying and h.ic’?_v S.olm item is preoe'nta: il by Mr. P. 4 bit. Apparently wit A . n:;‘..!u' = more than an electric lamp and a A‘M - fiunz?ee.nvau he ...

... ” said venting future tuberculosis by having in the | Captain Tupper, “hands up all who will last . ten years reduced infant mortality by | down tools to-night.” The response was re-36 per cent, markable, a forest of hands Lflng raised, One complaint reacted ...

... is computed that after making ample: allowance for the hot weather in July and August, and the probable increase of‘ infant mortality from diarrheea, it is not pessible to estimate the number of children who lost their lives in August and September as ...

... deaths was 483,321, or 13.5 per thousand, as against 14.5 pet (hnnssmr:n the previons year. Vor the period 1871-80 the infant mortality rate was 149 per thousand births. In the next period it was 142, in the next 154, and for Lhe period 1901-10 it was 127 ...

... sex—but it has certainly done sorie good. Men of science and medicine have yet., however, to solve thol terrible problem of infant mortality; soci»\ll reformers, to get beyend the fringe of that dark cloak which enfolds the elum mother' and her delicate offspring; ...

... general fact that where the number of houses per acre is limited the pormal death rate is less thaa 12 per 1,000, and the infant mortality rate less than 100 per 1,000 niant births.” . A Great Cause of Immorality. Several speakers, including official repr ...