... l'hus in the former country, inorlality, which in 1880 averaged only 17 per 1,000 inhabitants, in 1906 had fallen to 14. Infant mortality shrank from 112 to 82 per 1,000. In Norway tho rate showed a reduction from 16 to 13 per 1,000, and that of infanta from ...

... THE BABY'S PARADISE. In the hope of reducing the high rate of infant mortality in the slum districts, the Croydon Corporation has decided 1 establish a baby welcome. Mothers will bring their babies weekly to this institution to be weighed and to receive ...

... the 153 deaths were those of people of advanced age. Sheldon bad a higher birth-rate and lower death-rate, also a lower infant mortality than Teignmoutb, and there had not been a rase of symotic disease at Sheldon for ten years. Mr. Full: That is very s ...

... give i him an ncreased salary be get the Mos that be was to be deducted. Mr. John Burns stated at Caxton Hall that the infant mortality rite had decreased from 145 per 1,000 in 1904 to 106 per 1,000 in 1910 — representing a saving of between 40,000 and ...

... policemen do undertake rather mole than our own guardians of the =ln Germany, for instance, the police in such subjects as infant mortality, and tot levying and collecting. In Ireland the polio* barracks' notice-boards often contain advice, particularly in ...

... thereupon shook hands With the prosecutor, and bade him good-night, but he was subesequently caught by the police. Heavy infant mortality is reported fmm Stoke-on-Trent. The medical officer states that during the four weeks ended August 33 there were 295 ...

... per 1,000, and of the 73,057 males and 70,084 who died 25,795 were those of babies law than a year old. Yet the rate of infant mortality 15 per 1,000 below the average, the actual rate being 115 per 1,000. . . — Although measles and whooping cough were so ...

... has been going down steadily for seven years, continual to decrees • the eani dimalni zexral death-rate; a greatly , Infant mortality rue, the' lowest on record ; almost the same deathrate from the principal infectious diseases; a slight decrease in the ...

... hlerlical Officer on infant and child mortality which do LOCAL not make very pleasant read- Anvitosi ing. True, that things are very much better than they were a few years back, and there has been • steady decline in infant mortality. That, at least, as ...

... there really are too many officials of one sort or another is too big a subject to be dealt with here, but the report on infant mortality just issued by the Local Government Board affords abundant proof that those officials who are engaged in public health ...

... as compared with what happened a few years before the Infantile Mortality Congress began its work. In DO country in the world is greater progress being made in combating infantile mortality at the t time than 311 Great Britain and Ireland. VlT'gratifyitig ...

... Meal& Acta . . . . . . LIPI. had ;educed the death rate by 18 per cent in the .fifty years from 1861 to 1901, infantile mortality had not shown • corresponding fall. Another speaker deplored the fact that the dmith rate of children remained practically ...