... total deaths in childhood one-half their present number. This is followed by the. statement that during 1916 the rate of infant mortality was the lowest on record. Alluding to the work of inspectors of food, it is mentioned that the arrangements made the ...

... sewage being carried open ditches, finding its way to Burn best it could, and the result was that there was very high infant mortality. As time went on a drainage scheme was faced, and the streets kerbed and chanlellod and street lamps erected. The senior ...

... magistrates and upervision of Mr Barrowclough. lio leave'* rulers. nothing undone to ensure the comfort of he* Th© lecture on infant mortality and wastage armv of patrons. Miss Findlay officiates ar* of human life, l>y Bailie W. F. Anderson, pi s t with usual ...

... the population of the next tw or three generations will be weakening - tor that will serious menace to this country. Infant mortality has decreased considerably in the last twenty-five or l years; but more will have to be done , the children if w© are ...

... one-tenth of the total birth-rate —while there at tho same time, with the exception of Russia and Austria, the highest infant mortality any of the great European States. So strong realisation the evil has excited a deep determination in the minds of many ...

... porks nee •oonomic ] present rir try was I manner, was vital, infant life, 11,V, the resi had been oth thankful t Dcighbourl oraelty in but they I roles were allov knowledge was the Infant Ho centre • had they stood »nt mom .'’cars, and births 79.5 Per ...

... complexitica of busincse the £9O which that policeman goto without earning it, othcra earn without getting it. 1. C, dally, infant mortality, among the poorer classes; the waste indicated by the pin palaces or low groggericf. which increase poverty deepens; ...

... 1914, increase of 1.4 per 100. For 1915 there were 116 deaths, equal 15 per 1000, which was higher fully 1 per 1000. Infant mortality during the year was 134. or 8 more than 1914. SAD DROWNING FIATALITY. voung woman named Helen Oidien, aged 19, who resided ...

... made East and West actually meet. Care the Children. it saddening read newspaper statistic* that chronicle increase of infant mortality since the outbreak of the war, and it '•» matter that should give us, one and. all. furiously think.” With the fearful ...

... wes 18.5 “per 1000. Deaths were 19, fewer than in the preceding quarter of 1918. Uivilian deaths were 10.1 per 1000. Infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to registered births, was equal to T 0 per 1090, beirg 34 per 1000 ...

... effects having resulted. The mortality of the burgh was 12 per 1000, half of which was infantile mortality. Provost Smith—That is most outstanding report, that our death-rate is only 12 per 1000, the half which are infants. I think something should done ...

... his doubts upon the mitt ex. V The proceedings occupied about an hour and a half, and attracted considerable attention. INFANT MORTALITY, OR THE WASTAGE OF HUMAN LIFE BRITISH SECTION.-Bullfinch cock-l. Charles Ayr; 2, Thomas Sharp, Uphall; 3 and special ...