... 1900; * Infant Mortality.—The rate of this mortality or the proportion of deaths under one year of ago to every 1,000 births is 138, last year was 187.1. This is distinct improvement, which I hope will be maintained, and is the lowest infant death-rate ...

... INFANT PEED'NO AND MORTALITY. Sir, —Yon publish valuable article the feeding of infanta tbia morning. May I point out that the moat important detail was omittedthat ia, the meala should be at regular hours, with sufficient interval between. I have seen ...

... LABOUB NOTES, Working Mothers and Infant Mortality. Few of the papers road the meeting of the British Medical Association Manchester last week aroused such intewe interest as that Dr. Mileom Rhodes infant mortality. Bach figures thooe quoted by him from ...

... Battersea Borough Council, baa written to express her hearty approval of a system that so materially reduce* the rate of infant mortality. This is the first introduction of the system into London, although it has been operation at St. Helens and York for ...

... districts our great towns aa high per thousand, and in some cases of 47.2 per thousand? How was it that the rate* of infant mortality, which for the whole country was as high as 162 per thousand, had gone up to per thousand in the case of Sunderland, ...

... should moved. The aid of women upon these bodies would invaluable, not only matters education, but when questions of infant mortality, female lunacy, sanitation of factories and workshops where women are employed come under consideration. Everywhere the ...

... and treacle. Th® children are ailing for weeks. Frequently the mother and father are ill also. It is no wonder that the infant mortality rises. Actual starvation, it is true, has been averted the efforts of this journal, but the state of things which still ...

... showed the coarse his paper that illiteracy among women and a high rate of infant mortality are very commonly found together, and there cannot any doubt that great loss of infant life is due to the ignorance of mothers, or of those who are given charge ...

... provision of suitable food for hand-fed infants. At St. Helens, the infant mortality in the county borough, a whole, in 1901, was per 1,000. Among infants fed with the sterilised milk supplied by depot, tho mortality was 106 per 1,000. The ...

... that to be the world. the prorinces which are rirheet in paatur* and produce the moat abundant supply excellent mailt, infant mortality directly due to milh •tarration is bigheet, while ia the oountriea south the Loire is lowest. The treason, erf oourae ...

... hitherto been quite happy. But at last has found peace for his soul in the that in certain of the worst Russian villages the infant mortality is “so great that 40 and even 50 per cent, of the children die in their first year.” envy the conscience that can lolled ...

... dangers which lurk the woman question—tho most urgent of native Egyptian questions at this hour. Some authorities place the infant mortality of Egypt at the astounding figure of W per cent. That it is not much lower seems quite certain. Sanitary conditions alone ...