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THE CARE OF THE YOUNG. Templeman's report upon the health of Dundee for the year ending 31st December is an

... the Medical Officer calls attention to the necessity for giving special attention to the insanitary conditions by which infant mortality is frequently increased. His recommendations will, no doubt, be taken into careful consideration by those in authority ...

Published: Monday 31 March 1902
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Post
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNDEE'S HEALTH STATISTICS

... were no cases of plague. INFANT MORTALITY. The deaths of children under five years of age numbered 1215. The number of children in the first year of life who died was 844, which is equivalent to 24.6 per cent, of the total mortality, and, calculated on the ...

Published: Monday 31 March 1902
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1176 | Page: 4 | 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

A Successful Local Student.—At the examination recently held for girl telegraph clerks Miss Annie 1). Nicoll, ..

... for February last year, infant mortality the deaths under five years (103) constituted 38 per cent., and those under one year (65) 22 per cent, of the total mortality, the latter being equivalent an annual infantile mortality of 166 per 1000 births. There ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1902
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNDEE'S HEALTH STATISTICS

... were no cases of plague. INFANT MORTALITY. The deaths of children under five years of age numbered 1215. The number of children in the first year of life who died was 844, which is equivalent to 24.6 per cent, of the total mortality, and, calculated on the ...

Published: Monday 31 March 1902
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Post
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1145 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOW THE POOR LIVE

... dozen. The Rev. E. Despard, the association secretary, spoke strongly life the slums in Bristol, stating that the rate infant mortality in some of them was even greater than in the concentration camps South Africa. Parents,- too, in- Mirrd their children ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1902
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Post
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 392 | Page: 2 | 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

PRIZE COMPETITION

... Rev. E. Despard, the associaticn secretary, spoke strengly cn-life in the slums in Bristol, stating that the rate of infant mortality in some of them was even greater than in the cancentration camps of South Africa. Parents, too, insured their children ...

Published: Saturday 22 March 1902
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 928 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NOTES—MAINLY PERSONAL

... surroundings. The Russian death-rate is still abnormally high, 'being 51 per 1030, and increasing rather than diminishing. Infant mortality is the chief cause, due to criminal neglect, drunkenness, and want sanitation. A new flying machine is promised by B ...

Published: Friday 07 March 1902
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1509 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE SCOTTISH CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR AND VACCINATION

... smallpox microbe! But ever since, and in proportiion as, Leicester has left off poisoning their child the infant mowtality and the general mortality has decrossed and remarkably. the facts of Leicester’s experience: First, the aver- age annusl smallpox ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1902
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1349 | Page: 8 | Tags: none