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INFANT. MORTALITY IN CAPE COLONY

... INFANT. MORTALITY IN CAPE COLONY STARTLING FIGURES. Mr Chamberlain asked for statistics regarding child mortality in Cape Colony, and a memorandum on the subject was prepared by Gregory, Medical Officer of Health for Cape Colony. Among other things that ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1902
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 425 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNDEE MEDICAL OFFICER AND HOUSING

... So long they had in Dundee one and two-roomed houses without sanitary accommodation, it was not to be wondered at that infant mortality was high and the stamina of the people low. ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1902
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 117 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

REVELATIONS OF SLUM LIFE

... The Rev. E. Despard, the association secretary,, spoke strongly ou life in the slums in Bristol, stating that the rate infant mortality some of them was even greater than that in the concentration camps South Africa, about which we read and heard so much ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1902
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ISLANDS OF THE IMMORTALS

... 1700 the deaths numbered 16 ISOO, and 15 in 1901, 8.82 per thousand, as compared with 18.34 in England and Wales! Tho infant mortality is little more than onefourth of the English average. But even half those 15 or deaths, Hamilton declares, are due fatal ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1902
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ACTION AG . irKST Srn HSRBEKT MAXWELL . —Sana time ago in Wigtown Sheriff Court an action waa raised by

... they . had in Durice . ) one and two roomed hcuaes without sanitary accommodation , it was not to be wondered at . that infant mortality was lug-h-and Ihe stamina . o { Iho p&Olll' ) low . ABERDEEN SOCIETT rOR THE PEEVEXTiON 01 CRCRI-TT TO AXIUALS . —Ths ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1902
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 720 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THBSE MEN SCALDED AT ABDZEB FACTOBT . —On Saturday threo inen were injured at Aideer Factory through the ..

... vear of life who died dunng the year was 8 M , which was equivalent to 24 . 6 per cent . of the total mortality . The remedy for this high infant mortality lay in the prevention of those general insanitary coccitioas which . still abounded in certain . disAricts ...

Published: Monday 31 March 1902
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 689 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Mrs Patrick Campbell hi America. —Mrs Patrick Campbell has appeared with marked success in Chicago as Magda, ..

... England, London shopgirl conveying the malady to remote Welsh village, where a number people have contracted the disease. Infant Mortality in Russia.—ln many of the Governments of Russia, said The Times yesterday, the proportion of the children who die during ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1902
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GENERAL NEWS

... Battersea Borough Council, London, has written express her hearty approval of a system that so materially reduces the rate of infant mortality. This is*the first introduction of the system London. Man Drowned off Buchan Ness. —On the arrival of the steam trawler ...

Published: Wednesday 09 July 1902
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1441 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FHB SOCTAL ' . WT ^ STSff ^ ' . •' or THE ; , J'KMPI ^^ . O ^ a&WIS ? - •; . , - • ' : • ' -. ' -. • • ' • ' ..

... are sometimes outbreaks of dung feTor —a preventible maladybut altogether the general health is good . The rate of infant mortality is high ; and a boliot used to prevail Uiai Ure wcalcliniErs -died young , and that tho strong who survived withstood ...

Published: Thursday 20 November 1902
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5808 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SCIENCE AND NATURE ~ R . A T S ! /

... aringii • forth . several Lroods in a _ season , the litter Ecmhgrmg frcffl Gicrht to ten at a hir 9 ) TJnfortunately infant mortality is not one of the crying evils of ratdom , and tho-iieli mfautiaSe is i * ot , imknown ; it does not appear to have any ...

Published: Tuesday 25 February 1902
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2792 | Page: 8 | Tags: none