... INFANT MORTALITY IN WORKHOUSES DOUBT THROWN ON RELIABILITY OF ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT . A MEMORANDUM is issued hy the Local Government Board on deaths among infants in Poor-law institutions . . Prominence was given to this subject by some of the observations ...

... BATHGATE S HIGH INFANT MORTALITY IN 1908. ' UNDUE ADVANTAGE TAKEN OF VACCINATION CONSCIENTIOUS CLAUSE. Dr Robert Kirk, M.D., medical of for the burgh of Bathgate, has now prepared his annual report on the health the burgh for the year ending Slat December ...

... medicine and chairman of the Medical Faculty at the University. THE PREMIER AND INFANT MORTALITY. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Conference on Infant Mortality, held at. the Westminster Palace Hotel, yesterday, at which Councillor Anderson ...

... deported, but meanwhile they are being kept under observation by the Port Authorities. INFANT MORTALITY' LESS • —Pa are has been a oonsiderable decline in infant mortality recently, due, it ia thought, to the new Act providing for early notification of births ...

... Eightyfive per cent, of child mortality takes place under five years of age and 15 per cent, in school period between five and fifteen years. Death under one year of age is many times greater than any other age. The mortality is one-third higher in urban ...

... per cent . of child mortality took place under five years of agoand fifteen per cent . in the school period between &ro and fifteen years . Deajh under one year of ; ago was many times greater ^ than-at any other age , The mortality wai ono-third higher ...

... deputation at the House Commons from public health authorities on the question of infant mortality Mr. Burns, replying after the Prime Miniater, said that on the subject of infants' food the deputation would bear with pleasure that the Local Government Board ...

... the London district . The ' House went ; into Committee of Supply on . the Home Office vote ;' when tho question of infant ' mortality was among the various topics discussed . ' ' The ' vote was agreed to . The House rose at 9 ; o . . \ ; ( P-5- ) ...

... being rewaraod by • steady improve. ment in their moral and physical condition and by an increase in their numbers. While infant mortality and tuberculosis prevail to a considerable extent among Canadian Indians, better education and an increase of knowledge ...

... the open-sir method he was puzzled to account for so many deaths among infants in his wards in spite of every care in diet and nursing: In his private practice, the same type of infants was doing well, almost without exception. He finally decided to try ...

... former country, mortality, which in 1860 averaged only 17 per 1,000 inhabitants, in 1906 had fallen to 14. Infant mortality shrank from 112 to 82 per 1,000. In Norway the rate showed a reduction from 16 to 13 per 1,000, and that of infante from 96 to 69 ...

... moving forward in Scotland and realising more than ever the importance of children and child life to the nation. The infant mortality in our oongested localities and our stationary or decreasing birthrate were two great blots on our national character ...