... tweniy-fivp, 52 twventy- five to sixty, and 84 sixty and nuwards. The infant mortality is highestjin the Blhckpool, end lowest in the Lythbrm Bob-Registrntion district. The infant mortality as registered by the pro- portion of deaths under one year to registered ...

... rate for the past -year ; at the same time the mortality is much higher than it should be, and the diffioulties in the way of obviating so great an expenditure of life aro almost isnsrmountable. Infant mortality still stands at a high figure, and must, says ...

... and upwards. The infant mortality is highest in the Rirhham and lowest in the Lytham sub-registra- tion district. she infant mortality, as registered by the proportion of deaths under one year, to registered births, is 112-8. The mortality ...

... PILKINGTON. COIMECIWIAL DISTRESS AND INFANT MORTALITY. TO THE lEDIrOR OF TIHE PBESTON OEIRONICLE. SIR,-Thc statement, published in your colunins a week or two bsiuCC, showin-g a large diminution in the deaths of infants during the prescit commercial depression ...

... upwards, 36. In looleing Over these groil~s 0n5 is at 11 Once atrucic with the high rate of infant mortality, or the Al deaths of children aged less than one year, infant mor- iia tality being not inaptly described by some as the sanitary hi barometer of the ...

... comparison. Looking at the infant mortality, to which he thought they might look as a criterion of any substan- tial improvement in the sanitary condition of the town, the comparison was also favourable. The average of infant mortality during the last fou r ...

... of age disease easily afflicted them, and the result wasappalling. The system of baby farming was the chief cause of infant mortality, the children being deprived practically of the natural sources of nourishment. He thought that there should be separate ...

... too frequently badly housed and with occapations laborious and inimical tohealth. In some of the urban districts the infant mortality was excessive. This sacrifice of the innocents is much to be deplored, and it is the duty of sanitary authorities to ...

... law shall be suffered by these Who violate the I am, totic truly o l'Nov. t 1861. An the a Inc Mo, ?? BURIAL CLUBS AND INFANT MORTALITY. ' TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. SiA,-A letter appeared Iln your Sup lement of Saturday tlast, professing to ...

... handsome sum of £186. He might also state that adult mortality never ran so high as it did during the past year, as the following report would show. He must acquaint them at the same time that infant mortality Mnder five years lad steadily declined during the ...

... that the exceptional McaseS of the high death rate in Preston was not due to infant mortality ? The same figures applied also in the main to 1874. The average death rate for infants in Preston was 29 per cent. as against the general - average of other towns ...

... irocecds: The infant mortality (48) is stilt very high in cortain portions oF your district, 11 in excess of lest year; 2S in tic Kirkbsm, 14 in the Fleetwvood, eight in the lBlackpool, and one in Lythmam sab-regtmtrationc districts. The infent mortality is highest ...