... RISE IN INFANT MORTALITY Halifax’s Medical Officer calls for “immediate and long-term measures” THE Medical Officer of Health for Halifax (Dr. J. G.: Cairns) has reported to the Health Committee his concern about the trend of infant mortality in Halifax ...

... Fall in number in the area NEWLY-RELEASED infant mortality figures have revealed a drop in the number of baby deaths in the Scarborough area — but the number being born has fallen as well. Five children under one year old died in 1992 — one less than ...

... The infant mortality rate in the| district had been above average| from the mid-1950'5, but in the year under review it fell dramatically to 6.6 (national average 21.7, Rippon-! den 33.3, Hebden Royd 13.8). Only two babies. both under four weeks old, ...

... 2 £10,589-£12,883 HEALTH ’ o ’ p-a. R Infant Mortality - 3 year contract Yorkshire Regional Health Authority The work will involve co-ordinating the collection and processing of data allied to the Infant Mortality study which starts on Ist April, 1991 ...

... MORTALITY FIGURES AND UNFIT HALIFAX HOUSES M.O.H. on problem of environmental hygiene DURING 1961 there was no improvement in the birth and mortality statistics, and, although factors responsible for the low birth rate may be different from those causing ...

... BEAUTY: ‘The Hostage, starring William Lucas, Charlotte Mitchell, MORNING WORSHIP WEEKEND WORLD LINK. The highest rate of infant mortality in the country and a high rate of handicap, are concentrated among Asian families in the West Midlands FARMING DIARY; ...

... “Malnutrition in South Africa is such that while life expectancy of & white man is 70 years, for a black it is 35 years, and infant mortality is astronomically high A fami‘l’y of three—Mr. and Mrs. Stanley James of St. Peter Port. Guernsey, and their nine-year-old ...

... the World Health Organisation. A report by a group of cold| climate health experts says that the birth rate is high and infant mortality low in the Arctic and Antarctic. For this reason and because of the influx of workers to exploit| natural resources, ...

... ledged i \s id - ing an excellent health service for the @ Improvements in maternity services area. - led to the lowest infant mortality rate in He said there were many achieve- Yorkshire and the fifth-best nationally. ments to be proud of including: @ For ...

... , as is wel! known, a potent factor in the dissemination of a number of serious diseases, and has great influence on infant mortality. Since the inception of the National League for Physical Eduncation and lmmflnem in 1905, the question of pure milk occupied ...

... compared with five in 1960, Deaths from measles numbered 152 (31 in 1960) and from scarlet fever three (none in 1960). Infant mortality rates for Eng- Jand and Wales declined from 22.2 ner thousand live births in 1959 to 21.6 in 1961. The rate for Wales ...

... and intelligence, ’mmed unable to check the loss of na ional wealth which was invelved 1n our abnor‘maily high rate of infant mortality. } Yet year by year the sacrifice of possible lives went op,and « ...