Infant mortality increases in Dublin
Dublin, 19 November 1914 - Infant mortality increased in Dublin in 1913 with the number of infants who died per 1,000 births up from 140 to 154.
Presenting the figures, Sir Charles Cameron said that there was little doubt that the hardship, caused by the lockout, in the last five months of 1913 led to children in poorer families not receiving sufficient nourishment and that this largely accounts for the increase in infant deaths.
[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.]
