... thousand, and the birth-rate 20.2, only fraction above tie lowest ever recorded. The Medical Officer, referring to the infant .mortality, which is 104.6 per thousand births, atttxibuted improper feeding as responsible for large number of deaths. ...

... Spcnborough District Council, Dr. Gladys Ainscow, of Leeds, deplored that, in contradiction to the marked decrease in tho infant mortality rate, the rate among expectant mothers had slightly increased. This regrettable fact was all the more tragic in that ...

... Drinfc, and Poverty. MEDICAL CRUSADE AGAINST INFANT MORTALITY. The qnestioai raised the dreadful waste of child life that Is coldly set forth, bat quite inadequately pictured, by the statistics infant mortality, has passed from the stage all agree that something ...

... “Imperial Eugenics “ at the Royal Institution on Saturday, said there was one happy fact observable during the war—-the infant mortality 1916 for Great Britain was the lowest ever recorded. Nevertheless there were great many ante-natal deaths which could ...

... constant figur. it would mean that the average age at death would over eighty years. There were deaths of infants recorded during the week. The infant mortality rate for this year fifty-sis the lowest on record in the district. ...

... that the excess of infant mortality in such a year as 1893 implies a real increase of the mean death-rate of infants is not less misleading than it would be to proclaim a decrease of infant mortality because the death-rate of ...

... 1914 the sales of NESTLE S MILK have increased more than three times. In the same period it is officially stated that infant mortality has fallen in a very marked degree. f*UT the tkince or Cash Prices; WALES BOOK help olj J /jllJ .* st. dunstan’S. jiintt ...

... Remarkable Figures. Committee reduce the rate of infant mortality, and the ill-health of which that is an index. There is one big factor outside their jurisdiction, the fall in the birth rate. A big infant death rate always goes with a high birth rate. ...

... * * * WHEN Mr. Turner became a town councillor at Batley nearly forty years ago, the local infant mortality reached 162 per. thousand It is now per thousand children born trade union official used to be anathema to the employer. Now both sides realise ...

... the death rate was 13.8, infant mortality being per thousand births. For the 157 smaller towns having in 1921 populations between 20,000 and 50,000 the birth rate was 16.0, with death rate of 12.3, and infant mortality of 69. TABLES TURNED ON WITNESS. ...

... citizen assuredly owes some duty to the State. There is, too, a great work to done in directing attention to the terrible infant mortality that exists, and the best means of overcoming it. This is a wide subject, and extends to sanitation, poverty, housing ...

... that 4,000 fewer babies died. Reference was made in the Leeds Mercury the other day to the progressive decrease in the infant mortality rate, but it seems that there is almost as much room for improvement now as there ever was in regard to the vitality ...