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What do Doctors mean when they say that the tremendous infant mortality is caused by improper feeding? They ..

... What do Doctors mean when they say that the tremendous infant mortality is caused by improper feeding? They mean that most infants’ foods are of a starchy nature and cause rickets and stomach troubles. They are not complete foods. Virol is a perfect food ...

Published: Tuesday 26 January 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 73 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

INFANT NEGLECT AND MORTALITY

... INFANT NEGLECT AND MORTALITY. The more closely we cxanr.ine the practice of child- insurance (says the Lancet) the less there appears to commend it. Notwithstanding the fart that disease is much more prevalent during the early years of life than later ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1895
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 979 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

AIN LEGISLATION FOR BABIES, BUSY BRAINS AT HUDDERSFIELD. UNCEASING FIGHT AGAINST INFANT MORTALITY. [Special to ..

... AIN LEGISLATION FOR BABIES, BUSY BRAINS AT HUDDERSFIELD. UNCEASING FIGHT AGAINST INFANT MORTALITY. [Special to the Mercury.”] While Huddersfield sleeps, active brains are busy devising further for its we’jl-lbaing. Ainother bill is now before Pariliament ...

Published: Thursday 08 March 1906
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1061 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SACREDNESS OF MOTHERHOOD

... the general rate of infant mortality in Bradford was 144 per thousand, the rates in the separate wards varied from 265 in the Exchange Ward to 82 in North Bierley West. Infants were dying earlier and earlier. Yet infant mortality ought to ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1907
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BOOSTING SKIPTON

... BOOSTING SKIPTON. High Infant Mortality Rate Drops to Zero. Attention was drawn Mr. J. W. Broughton, at yesterday’s meeting of the Skipton Urban District Councih to the fact that the infant mortality for the district during was nil. The Chairman (Mr. ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1929
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHY DO KEIGHLEY

... Reputation, v ■ Says the Mayor. AN EXHIBITION HELP MOTHERS. From Our Own Correspondent. KEIGHLEY, Thursday “The high infant mortality rat© the town is causing very much concern,” said the Major Keighley (Mr. 11. Calverley) in opening a Child Welfare ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1925
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Lowest Birth Rate on Record. From Our London Staff. FLEET STREET, Wednesday, For the fifth year in succession ..

... The infant mortality rate is 1 per 1,000 below thai for 1932 and with the one exception oi the year 1930. is the lowest on record. These facts are given with the following provisional figures of the birth-rates, deathrates and infant mortality for 1933 ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1934
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SOUP FOR FAMILY

... scale test of expectant mothers. The results test in a district or city where infant mortality is high would give an indication of the extent to which maternal and infant mortality rates could be reduced, diseases of children decreased and the physique the ...

Published: Thursday 27 July 1939
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PREVENTATIVE WORK

... those who attend spasmodically or not at all, Dr. Russell declared. This is demonstrated by the fact that the infant mortality rate for infants attending the Welcomes was 31, against 71 for the city as a whole. If every mother would make a point of taking ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1935
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GOOD CRAVEN STOCK

... PARENTS FOR HIGH INFANT DEATH RATE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SKiPTON, Tuesday. Dr. W. Scatterty, of Keighley, acting medical officer, was asked the meeting of the Urban District Council to-day if he could account for the high infant mortality of 117 per ...

Published: Wednesday 21 August 1929
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HIGHER BIRTH RATE

... HIGHER BIRTH RATE AND RECORD REDUCTION IN INFANT MORTALITY. FLEET STREET, Saturday. The year 1928 will go down as the period when an improvement set in in the birth-rate of England and Wales, iollowing the unprecedented fall during 1927, when the number ...

Published: Monday 04 March 1929
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BIRTH-RATE INCREASE,

... INCREASE, Death-rate Lowest Ever Recorded. The Registrar-General’s provisional fignree relating to the birth, death, and infant mortality rates during 1920 were issued yesterday through the Ministry of Health. The principal figures are as follow: Birth ruto ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1921
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 7 | Tags: none