... routine business Senate adjourned. PREVENTION OP INFANT MORTALITY. Honour for Sir John Bjen* understand that their last meeting the Executive Committee the National Association for tho Prevention of Infant Mortality and for the Welfare of Infancy, London, u ...

... is generally recognised, and it was never more valuable than present because of the sacrifice of life in the war. If infant mortality can be greatly reduced —and there is litfle doubt that this is possiblethere will compensation to certain extent for ...

... speakers laid the entire blame lor the increased infant death rate since August, 1914, on alcoholism/* and, again, ‘These facts . • aro surely sufficient to account for the ’rise in our local infant mortality rate.” Are these statements not at variance with ...

... of to-day. Their infantile mortality was disgrace many ways, and its chief causes were overcrowding, want of fresh air, malnutrition, drink, venereal disease, ignorance, and the overv ork mothers. Though their infant mortality was lower at present than ...

... cannot, more than mention a few points it. One of the chief causes infant mortality is poverty, and another the mothers’ want of knowledge in regard to the feeding and care of their infants. It is suggested that this can remedied maternity and child welfare ...

... danger to ha in'England Uiao to soldier in France. Seven years ago Coleraine was one the worst towis* in Ireland for infant mortality, bub now was fifth best. Mis*. Haire. Belfast, bi the course an interesting address, said lh.it in England and Wales ...

... during the year 1916 among the civil population was 1.53 per 1,000, and for fecotland 1.59 per 1.000. , . The infant mortality rat© (deaths of infants under one year old per 1.000 births registered) m was 85, being per 1,000 under the rate for 1915. and also ...

... training of women in Germany in recent years, and remarked that the figures of infant mortality showed the effect of the women’s work. Before 1900 the death rat© among infants was 217 per thousand, but, owing largely to the system of State maternity insurance ...

... the mothers, extending the work which done already Schools for Mothers and maternity centres, diminishing the terrible infant mortality which is such a disgrace our industrial system. To elaborate the detail of these reforms would need book. Let ns pass ...

... the grant. order that the council may be possession of tin requisite information for the reduction and prevention of infant mortality it is Important that the Notification of Births Act, 1907, put in force Jn the district. Power reserved to the Local ...

... rise in our local infant mortality rate without accusing women wholesale of increased drunkenness. Of course there are mothers who drink, and some them drink more than before the war, and alcoholism is factor in infantile mortality ; but it is false to ...

... Lurgan bad tho lowest infantile mortality, namely, 76 per 1.000 births, which was actually decrease of 25, as compared with the average rate i»er I.COO births for the five preceding years, and was 37 less than the infant mortality rale Belfast in 1916 (113 ...