... INFANT MORTALITY, The following gives the numbers of deaths under one year of age. »nd the per 1000 births in tho end Coonty Hawick Dittric. . 2 Deaths. ' 3 per 1000 hinhs irdbarcli District ..6 ~ i-S „ „ Kelso DMriot .7 „ „ „ „ . 82 I,’ 27 W ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... taken place infantile mortality. Fifty years ago they found that 130, 140. 150 per 1000 of the infants bom died. To-day, cdty like Aberdeen, with all its advantages, they found it was quite easy thing for the death-rate amongst infants to mount to 150 per ...

... DECREASING INFANT MORTALITY. In spite of what the pesimiels sometimes say, we are getting on. Gloomy prophecies, based on a declining birth rate; have' been made that this country must eventually sink into • third class power. But while the birth rate ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. PLAIN SPEAKING ADVOCATED. The speaker said it had been calculated that the greatest number deaths occurred in in under one year old. This was often the result carelessness neglect the part mothers, and so all mothers of experience should ...

... first place, infant mortality is higher urban than in rural areas, the chief apparent exceptions to this rule being large, compact villages having urban characteristics, such as the mining villages of Durham. The rate of infant mortality in the towns ...

... 1904 . A decrease 15 noiea m infant mortality from . 94 per 1000 births * registered in 1911 to 86 per 1000 registered in 1912 . This is the lowest infant mortality rate recorded for Ireland . The highest infant ...

... in the more recent period, and if the infant death rate had remained at 144 per 1000 births then 922,254 infants would have died in the seven years 1906-11. Improved conditions thus saved the lives of 185,772 infants during the latter seven years. The counties ...

... rate is declining, infant mortality is diminishing, so that the national increase of the population is not so very seriously affected. A very high percentage of children still perish annually through mad-nutrition, and other conditions which owe their origin ...

... REDUCE INFANT MORTALITY . St Pbiebsbdeo , Juno 18 . The sum of a million roubles , given by the private banks of St Petersburg and Moscow on the ocoasibn of the Romanoff Tercentenary , will , according to an Imperial decree on the subject of infant mortality ...

... Petersburg and Moscow on the occasion of the Romanoff Tercentenary will, acezrding to an Imperial decree on the subject of infant mortality in Russia, be devoted to the upkeep of a special institution in which children and mothers can be received. ...