... aUttrtsfg, What Doctors mean when they say that the tremendous infant mortality is caused by improper feeding ? They mean that most infants' foods are of starchy nature and cause rickets and stomach troubles. They are not complete foods. Virol is perfect ...

... FEEDING OF INFANTS. the Sanitary Congress, Glasgow, yesterday Dr. C. Templeman said, in the country the excess of births over deaths wa s lessening. This created no small alarm to the ultimate effect upon our National stability. Infant mortality was due ...

... the exceedingly low rate infant mortality. The birth-rate was 29.2 per 1,000, and was the highest recorded for any year for the district. The death-rate was 13.54 per 1,000, compared with 14.39 for 1902. The infant mortality was per 1,000 births registered ...

... address, claimed that the Association had been instrumental in causing a great reduction in the death rate. The existing infant mortality was, however, a blot on the escutcheon of the country, and female inspectors could most effectively deal with that evil ...

... London, and to enlarge the scheme naval defence. The legislation promised includes measures for the reduction of heavy infant mortality, and measures dealing with electoral questions, licensing, and trusts. The financial position the Colony is strong.—Reuter ...

... respectively. Of the thirty-six s of scarlet fever, twentythree were from the Cullompton district, and twelve from Hampton. Infant mortality declined from 81.58 in 1902, 59.85 in 1903. ...

... In the five years 1892-96 it averaged 16.4, from 1897- 1901 it fell to 14.6, now has touched a lower level still. The infant mortality also i 6 exceptionally low, being only 87.4 per 1,000 of births. In every direction save births the public health statistics ...

... importance the feeding of infants was treated from a national point of view Dr. George Carpenter, physician at the North Eastern Hospital for Children, in paper read Saturday evening at Carpenters' Hall, E.C. . The infant mortality this coun try was ...

... of the feeding of infants was treated from a national point of view Dr. George Carpenter, physician at the North Eastern Hospital for Children, a paper read Saturday evening Carpenters' Hall, E.C. . . . The infant mortality in this country was ...

... 190, and giving a birth-rate of 18.30 per 1,000 of the population. The number of deaths under one year was 13, giving infant mortality of 68.42. The zymotic deathrate was nil. The death-rate the smallest recorded, the nearest being 13 in 1896, and eminently ...

... giving a rate of only 18.30, which the doctor considers uru»tisfe»ctoTy being below the average for urban Figures relating infant mortality gratifying, tbe percentage of 68,42 being the lowest recorded for the Jast ten years. Speaking of the water supply Dr ...

... number inhabited houses, average number persons to each 4.238; birth-rate, 21.8 per thousand: rate, 12.3 per thousand; infant mortality, '.' per thousand; there had been cases fectious disease, but a mild character, none had been fatal j scarlet fever 30 ...