... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... “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, ...

... 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 ...

... STOP. PRESS. NEWS.. MOTHERS Much of the credit for the reduced -infant mortality rate in Britain goes to the mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother said when she opened the 50th annual conference of the National Associa- tion for Maternal and Child ...

... birthrate is one of the! Mr. Edward Beben, a Polish h\?wst in the world. although the choirmaster, was twice carried infant mortality raté is also high. /into church on a stretcher at the The Government has been trym§ weekend to hear the choir he had ...

... healt communltl;‘in general, D says that “ statistically s it is progressing sati except for the problem ¢ of the lung. Infant mortality in t Riding is down again to t} lowest rate ever recorded setback last year. Measles prevalen The TB death rate is ati ...

... Man, Part One ” deals Bgainst 18.6 in the corresponding ith the comedians of the Period last vear. Still birth and wi infant mortality rates continued to silent screen, including the fa)) peaths registered in the first antics of the Keystone Cops, quarter ...

... F infant death despite ”deep freeze DURING January and February of this year—which included the coldest weather for more than & century —still-birth ates and infant death rates sflowed an improvement on the same period for 1962, Sir George Godber, Chief ...

... Ministry of Health. ” Ti};e evidenecg iof na‘t{méxal sickness is expressed in suc ures as .ment regards this debate as|an infant mortality rate ofg 170 per \ther .Premature. thousand compared wltp under 30 I{m\;:\lrt;eérb&%cé otr}\] e‘ GL:V‘Q}# fgirddeveloped ...