... INFANT MORTALITY IN BELFAST. BABY CLUBS' WORK COMMENDED. The Belfast city coroner held an inquest in the Templemore•avenue Baths on the body of a child named Ethel Iluddock, aged five months, whose parents reside at 28. Flora•street, Belfast. Mrs. Ruddock ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY HUDDERSFIELD'S GREAT ACHIEVEMENT. The infant mortality for Huddersfield for the year just closed is 97. This is the first time, so far as the records go, that. it has fallen below 100. The mean for the ten preceding years, 1897 to ...

... who have been investigating the congested districts under tbe direction of the health department, have le-s to the high infant mortality than generally is supposed. far the greater part iekneas among babies,” the bulletin asserts, has been duo to lack of ...

... of the National Conference on Infant Mortality, which opens to-day in London, delivered an address last night, and said great strides bad been made recently, both by public oninion and by the Government, in protecting infant life. The Government bad taken ...

... new branch, to which he wished long life and prosperity. (Applause.) After an address on how to face the problems of infant mortality, tuberculosis, and intemperance by Dr. Norman Barnett, Belfast, resolutions establishing the branch were adopted, the ...

... deaths of children under one year took place. This infant mortality is much too high, and points either to carelessness or ignorance on the part of mothers and nurses. In English towns the infant mortality has become so alarming that mothers are actually ...

... patients, inexpensive cottage sanatoria were being arranged for, and nurse-visitors beginning their work in connection with infant mortality, but several of their branches intended taking it in hand this summer. In Belfast, and in other places the managers of ...

... children alive a year. The scheme was first tried by the Mayor of Hadderefield, who was shocked by the statistics of infant mortality, and took this means of rousing mothers to a sense of their duty towatda their offspring. The result was almost magical ...

... in America, Germany. England, and other countries, and she was glad to say that wherever it d been put into practice infant mortality had gone down by one-half. (Applause.) As regarded the matter of the city water supply, she suggested that the association ...

... have told m'3 if they bad been stopped. WifcnsES made long statement as to ecme correspondence with Dr. Bigger as to infant mortality in maternity ward. It was not till 1902 that witness first heard that Nurse got certificate as a maternity nuref, Under ...

... Redmond, for the minority Sir Frederick Banbury and Mr. Robert Duncan (Govan). Referring to a Government report on the high infant mortality in the Borough of Leigh, a member of a Lancashire Town Health Committee states that an important canes of the great deathrate ...

... tho want and starvation that existed, and at an inquest on tho death of an infant through starvation last week tho Belfast Coroner drew attention to the increasing infant mortality, duo to the physical inability nursing mothers, through starvation diet, ...