INFANT DEATH-RATES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2161, 29 May 1914, Page 6

INFANT DEATH-RATES.

1-/ ' ■ TfiE good 'work wliidi is being I doiis in Now Ztsaknd by the Soewty : for' tko Health of Women and OJail- ' itcn is, of eoirtse, lvall known ntitl . highly ap-preeiatod tlweujghout tho PoHimion, <ificl speciftl.ci'cdit; is dtvo ! to i)R. TiitroY lviis'S for the time Mid thoug-ht which ht l has so givee to the operations of this successful Oi'gajiisitioui. loth £)% King and the society m*y wejl feel ■flattered at the attesticrfi tlicij efforts to reduee tho iafant niortality rate, have received in other eou,etrks. Tlio United States Departeeat of tabour (C%i.Wren's -ißujfc-au) hm, for example, thought it wortjl while k> iss«fi a pamphlet explaining what is being tlone in New Zoalatid for the promotion of tho health of women smd ribildreji, flic Chief of tho .Bureau, after pointing ovit the value of this work, expresses, tjie opinion that there ig cv-ery reason to IJciiovG. thai «imjjay volunteer elforth the- United States would produce similar rosalts. At the end. of lava years the. Dunediu branch of the i-oefety was able to find in tkc itoat%-rate statistics efear indications 'that tts aeiivitics N had not lipen iia vaia., and it cef * tamly is justified in claitoing a shai-e ■of tji.e. crpd.it for the matkieel improvement $feiiyn. Durisg tho seven years ftoju iJJOO ffioJ the *vei«age fleatb : j'<ite among ehiktnjii under , ene year in Jhinodin .afid subtirfeß wa-s a pet' cat. F'OC tho fivO'.Vcnr pm-iect, 1906-l&il,_ tte : average felt to- 6.S per while for tlie'last three years, of this period the average Was 6 per cep.t,; for the last two .years, 5 cral.j and for J. 911.,. 4. pes , coufe. Tlie year 19}3 s'ko-w<}d a further fall iji tile ittfMtile death.-rft.fc' to 3.S £pv every 106 births, fa-king Few Z&aland as a.- whoto, the jjeVecft-fiaKO fell : from B.S ja 1902 to 6,1 Jjj isil?. When ■ these figures are eonipared with the following statistics fe.r otiw* eouiitnes, fliS given in the pappMct, one' can well understand why the authorities, of the United States were so : favoxwably impressed bit irttat is feaittg done in New Zealand;

lisfciltik (}p4tli-.r.aier I'ef cßul. bt. Petw-sljtjrg oftd Moseow ... ?S VieMa „ „ ...j. if gert-in isj Glnp:jG«- , M I'flfis , ,„., ~., J2 Itindon „ , ~. ipUS Stflefcholm Bfld Ciirjstiaiiiß. ~.., S| The above statistics aro for the year 1910, The writer of the immpkleii. re«em.ffldncJ:S the nierits of the New sje,v laiid Society's Averfe .foy consideration by cluld wofficn and others in nraking, piwis for Safant welfare campasgns in small towfts and rural cotnmivnit!«s in fclie United States, and urges that both in cities and eo\j.ntev districts provision, should bo made lor instractiiig rnothora and <>ther persons respotaible' for the ca-f t>. o'f infalttS. :