... INFANT MORTALITY During the past ten y.-ars, the total number of births in IVrth was including illegitimate!; while in (In- same jx-riod, there occurred 77S deaths infants under one year age. This gives. us annual infantile death rate (i.e., tin? number ...

... not only the lowest death-rate, hut the highest birth-rate of the principal towns. Perth ranged third highest in the infant mortality rate, the Aberdeen rate the appallingly high on? of 258 per 1000; Perth little better 214 per 1000. and Dundee 170 per ...

... not worked without a special officer and the appointment of 11 district nurses, which would cost £llOO per annum alone. Infant mortality was very low, and was not to be compared to that of towns. It was agreed take no action meantime. Mr A. Panton in his ...

... n‘s|**ci infant I.din. a most favourable |H)sition. That, notwithstanding, then room for imi ernent. I h.it the infant mortality i» highest in ward .aid it i particularly to quartar that atlcn. i !»,• d ...

... install tion in “ruling the night.” Tii • tK-nclamt and educative report issued the Medical Officer of Health for Penh on Infant Mortality has, I am sure, been read with Hie greatest interest by ail who i cognise the impo.lance of doing everything possible ...

... than had slum areas —ui menace 10 the welfare of those who resided th«*m, a con'!am and the seat of our latnen'.a-hle infant mortality. The Labour Housing Association which had its gienosis in (ila>go\v had now a membership of 50,000. (Api>Vauso.) The ...

... milk is one of the best mediums for encouraging the growth of the micro-organism which is the cause of so much of *ur infant mortality in warm weather from Sui: mer Diarrhoea. Hut tlu* milk must In* pure. In this respect Local Authorities, especially in ...

... from teething, a thousand could attributed improper feeding. It incredible believe what some infants are called upon digest, and that nature should rebel when infant is made swallow things its mother would refuse, no wonder. The wonder is how many survive ...

... a vast deal to with it, and when the Church tackled these subjects she would be doing as much for the prevention, of infant .mortality as she could any other lines. (Hear, hear.) The Presbytery resolved express cordial approval all efforts in the direction ...

... will cover it, and boil quickly and without ceasing until it is done enough. Boil for three hours. Infant Feeding.—With regard to the feeding of the infant we have again a lesson to learn from France. Messieurs Blin and Blin, of Elbeuf, by way of encouraging ...

... scrutiny similar in its character to 'bit which is already yielding hopeful results in the •ement fur the reduction of infant mortality and for the detection of diseases among children of school ages. For the first time in our history, he asserted, it would ...

... (3) the Mohammedan, wlio is never allowed enter a mosque. There was a great dead of ill health amongst these women. Infant mortality was also enormous, figures in one case showing that onSy remained alive from 84 bom. There was a great inadequacy medical ...