... INFANT MORTALITY. The infants from January August had exceeded by 6? per cent, the number for the corresjxmding period of last year; in Juno the mortality was Jit the rate of 135 per 1000. Hunger typhus,” too, is common all over Germany. Suedes who have ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The Medical Officer of the Local Government Board, Dr Arthur Nowsholme, in his annual report, which has just been issued, reviews the public health during 1909. During the year, lie states, tho death-rate of England and Wales 1000 population ...

... hnvlrnnTTiftnf . nnA fnnri ' EAEbi HOBTALTry . A paper on Infant Mortality in the First Pour Weeks of Lifo was read by Professor Henry Koplik ( New Tork ) , who pointed out that a large number of infants who -wore born alive lived but a few hours or days ...

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

... that for years the British nation had been striving to reduce the rate of infant mortality. Much had been done, but much still remained to do. In the year 1891 the rate for infants under a year old was 138 per 1000; the lowest yet reached was 103 per 1000 ...

... in connection with the . deaths of infants , there are also some special nnd indiyidual features to lie noted . Poverty should be placed in . the forefront as one of the chief factors concerned jn infant mortality , and by showing the actual weekly ...

... INFANT MORTALITY PROBLEMS . ...

... compared with 14.7 in 1908. the lowest death-rate previously recorded. The infant mortality was 109 per 1000 births, as compared with 120 in 1208. Referring to infant and child mortality, Dr Newsholme re• marks No fact is better established than that the death-rate ...

... ONTARIO INVESTIGATION OF INFANT MORTALITY . The Ontario Board of Health is ...

... DMT'UNK INFANT MORTALITY' sir . rereire»l from the Piwdwit the ore I Hoard, a ture arerage infant death ami 1310 thow oeni* horougtm whr have adopted the Not 1 final ton Art. Some rednriiaaa are ahown a* (irimwhv. derltne rem deaths under one ,«go hirtha ...

... during the past six years . When they began the Confer ¬ ences , infant mortality was afc the xelativoly high figure of 145 per 1 WQ . Ho was glad to say that ia the sis jears that mortality had been , reduced to 106 . A diminution of 30 per cent . ( Cheers ...

... Child Welfabe Confeeesce . —Under the auspices of the National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and for the Welfare of Infancy tho Corporation of Glasgow purpose to hold a conference early in 1917 , and aro inviting kindred bodies and ...