... out poverty as toe culprit behind the high materm• and infant mortality rates in Philippines. Dr. Manahan said the matedeath rate throughout the Phi pines was 67.7 per 1.000 while foetal mortality rate was 8.9 r 1.000. ...

... childbirth was 288, though the maternal mortality rate continued to fall, it was still higher Than in several other countries, which indicated that the unavoidable minimum had not been reached. Infant mortality dropped again, to 23.1 per thousand live ...

... Unfortunately most of th e tribes are peculiarly susceptible to disease, chiefly tuberculosis and dysentery. And the infant mortality rate is one of the highest in the world. Disease is especially prevalent among the children, the main scourge being ...

... remedies. Cost was not the only consideration. however. The gains—an increase in the expectation lite, low infant mortality rate and low mortality rates in the middle years of life —could be attributed largely to the intelligent use of newer remedies. In ...

... population in 1958 to 10.44, while the death rate rose from 15.94 1958 to 16.15 per 1.000. Most notable factor Was the infant mortality rate -14.98 per 1,000 live births, the lowest figure ever recorded in the Borough. For the third year in succession there ...

... 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 ...

... decreased from 11.0 in 1937 to 10.2 The maternal mortality rate, 2.8 per thousand live births, was the lowest recorded, with the exception of the year 1922. There was decrease in the infant mortality rate 49.4 per thousand births, compared with 51.6 in ...

... Birmingham, while rate for the last six years in Bournv.lle had lieen 7.5. per 1,000. compared with 17.9 in Birmingham. The infant mortality Birmingham. declared.'was twice that Bournville. are never it so nice as i/ stewed and served witn^^ Brown & Polson’al ...

... his year of office and who survived its first year of life. This cost him £lO7, and so struck was he with the terrible infant mortality that he devoted the next 20 years to combating the evil and to bringing it to the attention of the public. As a result ...

... KEEP IT CLEAN The enormous rise in the number of of food poisoning and the high rate of Infant mortality were. maid Mr. Loveless, In the opinion of the experts. directly due to contatanutrion of and drink. Two reasons for this were both due to the war—the ...

... title Postcard. Dr. Slater, Mayor of Woolwich. opened an -Infants' Milk Depot at Plunixtesd, on Saturday, for the sale of starilised milk. with the object of diminishing the high infant mortality attributed to improper feed ing. In Woolwich about 3.500 ...

... this year is having phenomenal results Figures not yet published by the City Health Department show that the African infant mortality rate has dropped by about 30 per cent. in a year. Even greater improvement is expected by Christmas. In view of the excellent ...