... ago T here were 646 deaths of infants in the first year of ife, compared with 753 in 1982, and the infant death rate per 1000 live births has fallen from 11.4 to 9.9. The infant death rate for illegitimate children is over 45 per cent. higher than for ...

... INFANT MORTALITY The total number of deaths registered in 1983 There were 676 perinatal was 63,454, which is 1568 deaths (stillbirths and less than in 1982. _ deaths in the first week of The report contains |ife) in 1983, 10.6 per detailed analyses by ...

... INFANT MORTALITY There was submitted and read a letter from Mrs Leisk, Seeretary of the herwick Nick Aid Society, encloding a cipeular from the Queen Vietoria’s Jubilee Nurses Institute, Edinburgh. The circular was in reference to the Act dealing with ...

... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhcea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the contamination ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AND ALCOHOL. Dear Sig,~ln a trenchant article contributed to a London daily paper, Dr C. W. Salecby draws a vivid contrast between the condition of Paris and that of Edimburgh from ‘the point of view of their infant population. Our tnve ...

... REDUCING INFANT MORTALITY Referring to the urgent question of the preservation of infant life to fill up the terrible gaps caused by the war and its consequences, Sir James said a great deal of infant life was sacrificed owing to a deficiency, or inferior ...

... births by six. The infant mortality rate had increased from 72 per 1,000 births in 1924 to 78 per 1,000 births last year. The actual nnmger of infant deaths was 37, and of these 1 occurred in the first week after birth. The infant mortality ...

... Spotlight on Infant Mortality Statistics Infant mortality statistics in Fife were spotlighted at the meeting of the County Health and Welfare Committee in Cupar on Tuesday by Hon. Treas. R. Turpie, Leven, when he pointed out that during the quarter from ...

... STARTLING INFANT MORTALITY AT GRIMSBY. Set Pearls, 7 Rubles. &c. ...

... IMPROVEMENT IN INFANT MORTALITY FIGURES Record low figures of 24.0 per thousand live births for infant mortality .and 17.9 per thousand total births for still births were established last year in Scotland. The industrial west of the country, however, ...

... Lowest-ever infant mortality rate There were 17,133 births in Scotland in the third quarter of 1975 — 692 fewer than in the third quarter of 1974. The birth rate was 13 per thousand of the estimated population, which is 0.5 below the rate for the third ...

... Fact file — Infant mortality Perinatal and infant mortality rates in the Oxford 1990-1992. (deaths per thousand births) region { ® Perinatal is number of babies who die within seven days of being bom; infant ...