... BURGHEAD INFANT MORTALITY. meeting Burghead Town Council Thursday—Provost Graham presiding the return infant mortality and cases of infectious disease for the year 1917 were submitted. There were five deatfe of infants undor one year, tod ...

... the Corporation's Edinburgh and Glasgow. Resolutions regarding the compulsory acquisition of land for public purpose?, infant mortality and child and the amendment of the laws regulating salmon fisheries in the interest® of the national food supply, will ...

... with preventable distress and disease, and, above all, with conditions that are mainly responsible for the excessive infant mortality in many towns Mr Mee always bis best when descanting on the wonders and the beauties of nature and the lessons to be ...

... dorins,' the month was below the average, was 17.1. The deatha of infants under one year age were 28, as against .average 49 'for the corresponding the preceding five years. infant mortality, in relation to births, was at the rate of- 121 per births, against ...

... death-rate du: 6 the month was the average, which J The deaths of infants under one £»» ag ° ware 34. against, an average of 37 for the responding month in the preceding .-.i infant mortality, relatwn w , at the rate of 14R per 1000 average of. 116 for the ...

... decline m the The present agencies at work for the prevention of child mortality would not sufficient to essentially diminish infant mortality. A great mass of tbe diseases causing infant deaths were present imperfectly understood, or entirely unknown, and ...

... of Women and Children. His subject will Mother and Infant Welfare. Truby King is recognised authority on infant welfare fcnd was mainly responsible for the remarkable reduction of infant mortality in Now Zealand during the past eleven years from 80 ...

... systematic manner in which the Child Welfare Movement was being organised the United States with -the object of r«lucing the infant mortality in that country by 100,000 this year. Lady Aberdeen alluded to the efforts being made on behalf the children in the ...

... BRITISH ESTATE OVER THE RHINE. INFANT MORTALITY IN GERMANY. Appeal to Our Generosity. Cologne, Sunday. I have spent the last few days in making acquainted, far possible, with the extent and chief features of what may called our new German estate ...

... habit of allowing children to keerp late bourns tending to lead 1 to the great increase nervous troubles. It was this infant mortality which the society was out combat, and t was a disgrace our country that such a thing ahcniid be permitted to on. This ...

... can scarcely expected to assume upward trend under war conditions, but there reason why the much more menacing advance infant mortality should not be checked. From various causes, direct and indirect, such as tuberculosis, alcohol wm, venereal disease, ...

... oooasion observe that, during the three completed quarterly periods from July 1, 1917, far a« figures are available, infant mortality has never been so low in the records our country. Those who know most of the appalling sacrifice of young life Prussia ...