... INFANT MORTALITY IN ECYPT. TERRIBLE WASTE OF HUMAN LIFE. One of the most distressing features of the native life in Egypt, says the Cairo correspondent of the ‘““Pall Mall Gazette,”” is the great infant mortality. Recent statistics show that during the ...

... HEALTH OF BATTERSEA. RECORD LOW DEATH AND INFANT MORTALITY RATES. ...

... CORRESPONDENGE. See also page 9, VACCINATION AND INFANT MORTALITY. ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY During the year 1908, 494 deaths of infants under one year of age were registered in the Borough of Battersea. The total number of births recorded during the year was 4,629, and the infant mortality rate was 107 per 1,000 births. In ...

... knowledge which women possessed would be vez_'{ valuable in reforming many social and moral evils, such as milk purification, infant mortality, insanitary housing, sweating, etc. 'The meeting, which was well attended, was kindly conducted f’y the Rov. G. Leale ...

... Elder,” writing in your issue of the 13th inst., connects vaccination with infant mortality in a manner wholly unwarranted by ascertained facts. Finding ‘that the infantile mortality has decreased he assumes that the neglect of vaccination explains the decrease ...

... Vicar of Putney {(Canon Thurston Rivington) and Mrs. Rivington. Sweating, dangerous trades bad housing, and overcrowding, infant mortality, and unemployment are some of the evils that the Christian Social Union recognises as such, and is making every effort ...

... School) read a very instructive paper on “The health of the State,” dealing especially with infant mortality. He pointed out the large percentage of deaths among infants, and backed up his statements by statistics from factory towns, large cities, and also ...

... the National Asseciation for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and for the Welfare of Infancy, dated March, inviting the Cotmeil to appoint, delegates to attend a conferenco on the subject of infant mortality, to be held at QP i R e e ~ Liverpool on ths ...

... occurred, viz.:—“While the death rate im London from all causes shows a large and steady decrease since 1841, the rate of infant mortality shows no decrease at all.”. The meeting was called by the Stepney Council of Public Welfare, a body composed chiefly ...

... of Halifax, president of the Association of Public Vaccinators, has intervened in the discussion on vaccination and infant mortality. I do not complain that Dr. Drury seeks to shift the ground from London to Halifax, for, by my references to Leicester ...

... certain facts before. the committee. First, as regards the lying-in ward. Mrs. Sidney Webb stated . that the average infant mortality for the first week in a London workhouse lying-in ward was 42.2 per 1,000. Doctor Dodson had abstracted from his records ...