... The Milk Supply and Infant Mortality. There is another waste which has to be prevented—the waste of young lives, which presses so carnestly upon this and other nations, especially when our young manhood is dying daily on the fields of battle. May I remind ...

... THE BABY'S PARADISE. In the hope of reducing the high rate of infant mortality in the slum dhtricu.‘\fho Croydon Corporation has decided to establish a “baby welcome.” - . Mothers will bring their babies weckly to | this institution to be weighed and ...

... associations of newspaper proprietors. InrANT MogTALITY.— In reply to questions calli':? attention to the increase of infant 'mortality, and to the enormous quantity of ' drunkenness among mothers and other women in many parts of London, Mr. Long assured ...

... only a decline of the ratepayer's expenses, but a still more gratifying decline of infant mortality and smallpox, thus showing vaccination to be not only a destroyer of infant life, but a means of perpetuating smallpox. With the total abolition of vaccination ...

... manufacturer, a C%mrchman, a keen Volunteer, and a leader of the Couservative party in the Rossendale Division. . Heavy infant mortality is reported from Stoke-on-Trent. The medical ofiicer siates that during the four weeks ended Auguet 26 there were 295 ...

... vaccination, and which none can more plainly see than its medical advocaies themselves, will be such a reduction in the infant mortality, and such an improvement ‘in the general heaith, as will ciearly show vaccination to have been one of the most terrible ...

... foundation for the apprehension that there had been a sudden increase in infant mortality. due IY) want of pmérr nourishment or care. There had been more deaths in earliest days of infant life, but it had been traced to measles and whooping cough. There was ...

... cause of s 0 many g}'mpfiu now in the country. ours faithfully, GEO. HEMMING. Abingdon, 30th March, 1912. Vaccination and Infant Mortality. 8z :In the House of Commons, * Mr. Pointer asked the President of the Local Government Board whether the recent material ...

... ten or a dozen years whilst they were keen, in-:rnnd sanitation led to a certain decrease in infant mortality in the «wntr{. But for various reasons the infant morth:‘i:y r:t& afterwards incre..:‘d. nn;lm‘i‘t | | in toa ‘tfh r figure than in 5. »fip rate ...

... former country, mortality, 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 the rate showed a reduction hg 16 to 13 per 1,000, and that of infants from 95 to 69. ...

... this benefit? In order to anewer this question it is necessary to study the statistics of infant mortality. In tnem we find that during the first six weeks of infant life the death rate and the waste is Fmr almost than at any other period. here are, of course ...

... better and a uelzm place.” Batween 1851 and 1901 Public. Health Acts have reduced the death-rate eighteer per cent. Our infant mortality is still far ex - than it ought to be, but it is very significant thas. in districts where special care has been directed ...