... taken place in the rates of infant mortality over the past few decades there remain real and dramatic differences between districts and between regions” Mr McLeish called on the Government to include reducing infant mortality among its Health of the Nation ...

... homes in this country the women’s privilege of inaccuracy and weakness was accepted Wh>, she asked, should our rate of infant mortality still nearly double that of Norway ? It was due to an ignoranco which was blot upon years of higher educational work ...

... helps offset the lessening of the supply because of hardening of the arteries. Medical science has succeeded in mastering infant mortality and infectious diseases to the benefit of longevity. But, because o/ its inability to cope with arteriosclerosis. no ...

... measures prosperity by an income level Index which is derived from, among other information, the rateable value and the infant mortality rate. Bournemouth and Hove, with income levels 19 per cent, above the average, are the most prosperous, according to ...

... had been damaged and drove straight to Torquay police station to report the matter. Fewer babies are dying Australia's infant mortality rate Is steadily decreasing. Since 1954 there have been fewer than 21 deaths per 1,000 live births every The director ...

... medical science, and ',rectally its work during the last let. years an reducina to such s large extent the amount of infant mortality Mention of health %%as made both in prayers awl in the course of the morning sermon at (ockmgton Parish Church. hy the ...

... highest in the world, although the infant mortality rate is also high. The Government has been trying for years to better the housing of these people in the far northern regions of Canada in the hope of improving infant living conditions and bringing about ...

... Service) speaking at Seale Hayne Agricultural College, Newton Abbot to-day. bringing many diseases under control, reducing infant mortality and increasing longevity, doctors had offered farmers “tremendous challenge, said Prof. Scott-Watson. They have made ...

... beliefs in the evil eye and malignant spirits. There was also a great deal of disease among the children, and a high infant mortality rate. After she ha d returned to England at the start of the war and started doing welfare work for old people. Mrs, ...

... the ilociety. Miss I. It Wynne, speaking die work of the medical niissionaries in Egypt. said the terrible amount of infant mortality sr, due in large measure to the poor conditions of the middle and lower classes. There was a fir?at ignorance of hygiene ...

... last fuer weeks as 34, showing of death-rate of 17 8 per thousand upon 25.000, or 20 against 22,000. There was great infant mortality, and he considered if the babies were better looked after they would not die. The Board adjourned at one o'clock. ...

... South West Infant mortality rates in the Torbay Health Authority District for 1990 show that 25 children under the age of one died last year that is nine in every 1000 The figure has risen from 17 in 1989 when Torbay had the lowest infant mortality rate in ...