... INFANT MORTALITY. The infants from January August had exceeded by 6? per cent, the number for the corresjxmding period of last year; in Juno the mortality was Jit the rate of 135 per 1000. Hunger typhus,” too, is common all over Germany. Suedes who have ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. WORKING MOTHERS AND DYING INFANTS. The Medical Officer of Health for Manchester has issued an important report on infantile mortality. The City Council of Manchester was asked the Conference Infant ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The Medical Officer of the Local Government Board, Dr Arthur Nowsholme, in his annual report, which has just been issued, reviews the public health during 1909. During the year, lie states, tho death-rate of England and Wales 1000 population ...

... SLUMS AND INFANT MORTALITY, might be expected, badly-paid labour accompanied in many instances by wretched homos and a high rate of infantile mortality. Miss Margaret Irwin, secretary to the Scottish Council for Women's Trades, says that the Belfast worker ...

... BATHGATE S HIGH INFANT MORTALITY IN 1908. ' UNDUE ADVANTAGE TAKEN OF VACCINATION CONSCIENTIOUS CLAUSE. Dr Robert Kirk, M.D., medical of for the burgh of Bathgate, has now prepared his annual report on the health the burgh for the year ending Slat December ...

... Edinburgh. FLIES AND INFANT MORTALITY, Dr J. T. C. Nash, the Medical Officer of Health for Southend, contributes to the October number of tho “Journal of tho Royal Sanitary Institute” an important and suggestive paper upon “The Waste of Infant Life, in which ...

... there the infant mortality rate is in the region of 30. A similar figure in Scotland will mean the saving of 3500 Infant lives every year. The problem of infant mortality was most acute in the congested areas whore most of the local ...

... 1000 of population, and the infant mortality 111 per thousand births. From then onward the birth-rate has steadily dec 'ned, until it is now not much more than half what it was. Last year the figure was 18.4. Infant mortality has also become much less, ...

... has rootribuied in appreciable degree the reduction of infant mortality that has taken plate. Iwt it is too oarly dotornnao to what lent lias been effective. lie eficot of many of the causes infant rnortahly can lessened the edcuation of women centres ...

... Eightyfive per cent, of child mortality takes place under five years of age and 15 per cent, in school period between five and fifteen years. Death under one year of age is many times greater than any other age. The mortality is one-third higher in urban ...

... Britain’s standardised death-rate in infant mortality maternal mortality, and mortality from Infectious and narasitic diseases are disclosed in the Registrar-General’s statistical review for 1938. Infant ...

... EXCHANGE. BATHGATE, On-MONDAY, sth DECEMBER. Bv BaMie W. F. ANDERSON, ex-Convener of Public Health, Glasgow. Subject—“ INFANT MORTALITY ; OR THE WASTAGE OF HUMAN LIFE.’* To bo Illustrated bv specially prepared Lime-Light Views. Chairman—Dr KIRK, Medical ...