... INFANT (MORTALITY. A lady 'health doctor of wide experience Pays that more children die from over-feeding and tinproper feeding then from neglect. In one case, she found mother feeding her two months old (baby With suet pudding. This ease lis said to ...

... HIGH INFANT MORTALITY EDINBURGH. The number of deaths registered in Edinburgh during the past week was 64, equal an annual mortality of 9.8 per 1000. these 12 were infants under 1 year old, and 27 were persons over 60 years of age. During the moßth of ...

... The deaths of infants under one year numbered 19. The infant mortality rate was 83. As compared with 15 deaths and mortality rate of 60 in 1917, these figures were much to be regretted, and indicated that the waste of infant life was not ...

... 1916 the rate of infant mortality in England and Wales was the lowest on record. ...

... ing of the child. The infant mortality the country was their disgrace, but it was interesting to know that the infant mortality rate for Scotland in 1916 was 97 per 1000, the very lowest on record. While that was so, they must also bear in mind the counter ...

... THE HEAVY INFANT MORTALITY A Mother writes: We owe our child's life to Plajmon. She was gradually wasting away, and the doctor said he feared nothing could save her, but from the first time of trying Plasmon she improved, and is now a little picture ...

... first place, infant mortality is higher urban than in rural areas, the chief apparent exceptions to this rule being large, compact villages having urban characteristics, such as the mining villages of Durham. The rate of infant mortality in the towns ...

... Lederle, commissioner of health, has made a report on infant mortality in New York, which, he says, has been greatly reduced 6inee the Health Department's milk stations were opened in April. Over 12,000 infants have been under continuous treatment, and from ...

... was considered the Norham and Islandshire District Council at their meeting in Berwick. Dr Head stated that the rate of infant mortality in the district was above the average, and that this could, in his opinion, • be remedied the instruction of mothers ...

... 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 ...

... rate is declining, infant mortality is diminishing, so that the national increase of the population is not so very seriously affected. A very high percentage of children still perish annually through mad-nutrition, and other conditions which owe their origin ...

... FRANCE HAS NEW PLANS TO RELIEVE MOTHERS IN FACTORIES, And Hopes to Reduce Infant Mortality. The terrible statistics of infant mortality in France published by Doctors Palestre and Giletta have induced several French deputies to put their names an interesting ...