... decline m the The present agencies at work for the prevention of child mortality would not sufficient to essentially diminish infant mortality. A great mass of tbe diseases causing infant deaths were present imperfectly understood, or entirely unknown, and ...

... and the decrease in the population caused by war the subject was of national importance. During last twenty years the infant mortality rate in Banffshire was per cent., and the death rato from whooping-cough, measles, and infectious disease wa-> very high ...

... balance Bd. EFFECT ON INFANT MORTALITY. Dr Agnes Thomson mid from the medical point of view the mothers benefited greatly by that club, because they ■were beginning know how take care of their children. In time, that would infant mortality. Matthew Hay the ...

... National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and for the Welfare of Infancy, transmitting oopy of a reeolutiou adopted by the Executive Committee of the Association regard to Government grants for infant welfare and maternity centres in Scctlanth ...

... over the whole of the rural insular parts of Roes it was over per cent. these places, as would naturally be expected, infant mortality is high, and the number of women who di« in ohild-birth distressing. That large Government grant must given very evident ...

... old. In Scotland, with an average of 100,000 births yearly, at least 11,000 infants die in the first year of life. Though it is in the industrial districts that infant mortality is greatest, the rate in some cases being much as three times higher than in ...

... become the paramount duty of the State feed and clothe them, and even to endow parenthood itself. He was satisfied that infant mortality had its roots more deeply situated than oould touched by welfare schemes. In Aberdeen in 1915, of every 1000-babies born ...

... island were going to build hospital in which there would a maternity ward. Froken Henni For hammer accounted for the low infant mortality in Denmark by the fact that the milk supply in that country was very good. Mrs Vickery, Australia, reported that mothers ...

... Rhondda. infant more to bring the Kingdom Heaven to earth than all the songs that were ever sang all the sermon* ever preached. ' human selfishness—which only another name for stupidity—is respoi isibile for t ,*> gh/,?t.y roll of infant mortality, and it ...

... 13,710 infants died before reaching their first birthday. These are the figures of ascertained mortality among live children. To these hare £o add the deaths of children either immediately before at birth. They are about equal to the mortality among live ...

... of Women and Children. His subject will Mother and Infant Welfare. Truby King is recognised authority on infant welfare fcnd was mainly responsible for the remarkable reduction of infant mortality in Now Zealand during the past eleven years from 80 ...

... salary was fixed 1892, his duties have largely increased. For instance, more attention has now to given connection with infant mortality and the control of tuberculosis. Greater supervision is also required in to workshops, bakehouses, dairies, and inspection ...