... different type where, perhaps, the mothers are working in mills and factories and are handicapped in consequence. The rate of infant mortality in Bangor is vary small indeed—only U last year, of whom four were illegitimate. At the same time if it means the saving ...

... the war began. For many years past strenuous efforts have been made to reduce the heavy waste of child life. The infantile mortality, which in the nineties ranged about 150 per 1,000 births, fell to ninety-seven per 1,000 in 1912. In 1916 it arose to 110 ...

... childhood to the grave were obsessed with the dread of evil spirits; their ignorance of hygienic laws, the awful rate of mortality among infants (he believed between birth and a year old 86 per cent. of the babies (bed through absolute ignorance), and the qualities ...