... INFANT MORTALITY. We (Nation) congratulate the Local Government Hoard on Dr. Newsholme’s wonderfully full and penetrating analysis of the facts and causes infant and child mortality in England and Wales. The Report should be read and mastered by all friends ...

... INFANT MORTALITY I have to point out that there has been a slight increase In the infantile dea h rate, 41 children dying within one year of birth, and due, in my opinion, to an epidemic of whooping cough that continued throughout most of the year and ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN IRELAND. CONFERENCE DUBLIN. The conference infantile mortality held the Lecture Hall of the Royal Dublin Society yesterday afternoon well attended. The Counters r Aberdeen, who presided, remarked, in the course an opening address, ...

... compared with 14.7 in 1908. the lowest death-rate previously recorded. The infant mortality was 109 per 1000 births, as compared with 120 in 1208. Referring to infant and child mortality, Dr Newsholme re• marks No fact is better established than that the death-rate ...

... Breast feeding (Dr New come says) the greatest natural protection against infant mortality. ...

... this connection he showed that of the twelve counties in England and Wales having the highest infant mortality, six are in the Principality. The infant mortality of Glamorgan in the year 1908 was 29 per cent, higher than the average for England and Wales; ...

... consumption. prinnpal medical' the Local Government Board, lecturing in the evening on the importance child mortality, the high infant.' mortality in specially bad-counties often inexcusable municipal neglect and was in the power the sanitary authorities ...

... this connection he showed that of the twelve counties in England and Wales having the highest infant mortality, six are in the Principality. The infant mortality of Glamorgan in the year 1908 was 29 per cent. higher than the average for England and Wales; ...

... and get at the mothers of the infants. The reduction in infant mortality in the district mentioned was undoubtedly due to a considerable extent the work carried on by the Society. While they could estimate infant mortality by statistics they ...

... the matter of knowledge and practical instruction imparted to women on the subject of food, the effect being a higher infant mortality. The establishment of mothers' homes and schools in every populous district was advocated. Wo.nen. mill Mrs. W. MacDonald ...

... death-rate Bourn villa for the last three years has been just under one-third the death-rate in Birmingham, and fch« infant mortality has been one-half The boys at. Bournville at twelve year's of age are 2£ia. taller than boys same age in the Floodgate ...

... 4 to 5 . Evidently , says tho report , the proportion of infant mortality which has been prevented , and of that which is still preventable , increases with the age of tho infant . i It may bo said , tllQll , that a . good deal has already ...