... INFANT MORTALITY. Medical Officer of the Local Government Board, Dr Arthur Newsholme, in his annual ireport, which has just been is-uad, reviews the public 'health during 1909. During the year, states, the death-rate of England and Wales par 1009 of ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. According to figures given at last week’s conference on the prevention of infant mortality and the promotion of th© welfare of children under school age, a marked improvement has been effected during the past six years in the protection ...

... INFANT MORTALITY There was submitted the minute of the Public Health Committee, which stated that the town clerk read a circular Letter from the Corporation of Glasgow intimating that under the auspices of tiie National Association for the Prevention ...

... INFANT MORTALITY The deaths of infants from January to August bad exceeded per cent, the number for the corresponding period of last year; in June the mortality was at the rate of 135 per 1000. “Hunger typhus,’’ too, is common all over Germany. Swedes ...

... INFANT MORTALITY The conference on Infant Mortality, which attended delegates from all the Englishspeaking nations, was opened by Mr Burns. said tire problem that had be faced was that of reconciling the health of the people with the growth of trade, ...

... SLUMS AND INFANT MORTALITY As might be expected, badly-paid labour is accompanied in many instances wretched homes and a high rate of infantile mortality. Miss Margaret Irwin, secretary to the Scottish Council for Women’s Trades, says that the Belfast ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY One Is glad to see that the conferences hold from time to time have led this week to the formation of a National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and the P omotion the Welfare of Children under School Ago. The inaugural ...

... this connection he showed that of the twelve counties in England and Wales having the highest infant mortality, six are in the Principality. The infant mortality of Glamorgan in the year 1908 was 29 per cent, higher than the average for England and Wales; ...

... Burns. It represents alliance between the National Conference on Infant Mortality, the National League for Physical Education and Improvement and its Department, the Association of Infant Consultabions and Schools for Mothers, and the Women's National ...

... in the more recent period, and if the infant death-rate had remained 144 per 1000 births, then 922,454 infants would have died in the seven years 1906-12. Improved conditions thus saved the lives of 185,772 infants during the latter seven years. The counties ...

... A HEALTHIER IRELAND The repot of the General for Ireland for 1912 shows decline m infant mortality from 94 86 per 1000 births. hi? is die low - rale vet. reached, and the reduction i* one of the eanees the general .death-rare faJbng 16.46—the lowest figure ...

... Prevention Infant Mortality, etc., asking that the following resolution submitted to the Public Health Committee, via.:—“ That the time has oome for carrying on a general educational campaign througimut the country with the object further reducing infant mortality ...