... INFANT MORTALITY There was submitted and read a letter from Mrs Leisk, Seeretary of the herwick Nick Aid Society, encloding a cipeular from the Queen Vietoria’s Jubilee Nurses Institute, Edinburgh. The circular was in reference to the Act dealing with ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AND ALCOHOL. Dear Sig,~ln a trenchant article contributed to a London daily paper, Dr C. W. Salecby draws a vivid contrast between the condition of Paris and that of Edimburgh from ‘the point of view of their infant population. Our tnve ...

... problem of infant mortality will find many suggestive ideas in the New Zealand scheme of Plunket Nurses for which the Society for the Promotion of the Heulth of Women and Children has for many years been re. sponsible. As a result, the rate of infant mortality ...

... starvation is increasing rapidly in Germany, The Chancellor’s declaration was forced from him owing to this cause. e 4 Infant mortality is great in Hamburg owing to the existence of a strange, insidious disease of a gastric nature caused by the semistarvation ...

... per litre (about a pint and three-quarters). The “Neue Freie Presse’ cxpresses anxiety that, in such circumstances, the infant mortality will assume considerable proportions. Egzs and hacon are continually inercasing in pric and Viennese housewives find ...

... New Zealand for the production of Nestle's Condensed Milk, COMPLIMENTEF Y UNITED STATES New Zealand boasts t + lowest infant mortality rate actically appreciated by the United State Children's ¥ Department formation than to the scheme Dominion. motion ...

... not shirk their responsibility and their dutv. Women everywhere are marshaliing their forces and schemes dealing with Infant Mortality, Child Welfare, Maternity, Housing, Ed other social matters, are beins pressed to the fromt. The question for cach in ...

... spoke on prison work, Rev. Mr Cannell spoke on temperance, and Mrs C. J. Duncan gave a very fine and practical address on infant mortality and child welfare, so far as Lerwick was concerned. Mrs Duncan, in her capacity as a nurse, was able to state cases, ...

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... ZEALAND'S SPLENDID HEALTH RECORD. sively trads polit New Zeo aud can pmiuce with its 5.1 per cent, by far the lowest infant mortality rate in the world, London’s rechrd being somewhere about 11 per cent., and Russia’s nearly double that, In one town in ...

... supply could have been permitted; English wives and mothers would have grasped the counection between our absurdly high infant mortality and the present condition of the milk trade. It may be quite definitely asserted that, by reason of its transmission ...

... Act, 1907, has not been adopted by the Local Authority. The rate of Infant Mortality for the past year 101.2 per 1000 registered births . Thiz in my opinion, might be reduced if infants were more generally nursed on the breast than on the bottle, and if ...