... INFANT MORTALITY During the past ten y.-ars, the total number of births in IVrth was including illegitimate!; while in (In- same jx-riod, there occurred 77S deaths infants under one year age. This gives. us annual infantile death rate (i.e., tin? number ...

... book along with sweets and fruit. On behalf of the child- Infant Mortality in Perth An analysis of this year's figures is likely to show a considerable improvement in Perth's infant mortality rate, which was unfavourably high last year in comparison with ...

... J. A. & D. CAMERON, 9 York Place & Bridgend, . PERTH. . . . Moo Infant Mortality in Perth. DR PARKER STEWART ADVOCATES HOME FOR MOTHER AND CHILD. ...

... a reduction of the infant mortality. In all towns there were different classes, and it was well known that infant mortality was far higher among the poorest than among the middle or highest working class. That high infant ...

... Thomas Johnston. Secretary of i State for Scotland, in foreword to ! the White Paper on infant mortah y lin Scotland stated that Scotl.ind . d , higher infant mortality rate than all the countries it) Europe 1 Spain and Portugal, faetwelose ■>7 babies out ...

... death• rate is going down, and I think we may regard that piece of news as highly satisfactory. Moreover, the rate of infant mortality is going down ; nut so many little white oofhils are needed, and that is good . news, too. But the question is not. finished ...

... Mrs Rodger, front the Child Welfare Centre, Perth, was the speaker for the evening. She discussed the chief causes of infant mortality, 81111 how to a great extent illness in infancy could be prevented by due attention to the feeding I and cleanliness ...

... age, whilst there were 14 deaths in children under 1 year, of which 5 were ascribed to developmental causes, giving an infant mortality of 58'0, as compared wit hl 98'5 in 1906. Zymotic diseases caused 5 deaths during 1906, as compared with 4 in 1905, and ...

... be recorded Infant mortality rate The infant mortality rate of 29 is the same as last year and is lowest for all the large Burghs in Scotland The rate for Scotland 45 and for the large Burghs 48 Maternal mortality rate The maternal ...

... pensions to infant mortality. Perhaps, however, if the former were to be treated from the practical aide, the distance would be seen to diminish, and the same causes be found operative in both. At stapling it cannot be denied that the question of infant mortality ...

... infantile mortality. Among the causes aasigned for the high rate of infant mortality is the fact that many married women work in factories and neglect their chit• dren, and that owing to this and other circurn • stances a larger proportion of infant. are brought ...

... not only the lowest death-rate, hut the highest birth-rate of the principal towns. Perth ranged third highest in the infant mortality rate, the Aberdeen rate the appallingly high on? of 258 per 1000; Perth little better 214 per 1000. and Dundee 170 per ...