... A INFANT Dr. Hight, medical cftieer of health, reported the registration during the ef 77 of which 40 were males and 37 females, am annual birtb-rate of 349 per 1,000. Thirty-+1x deaths occurred, of which 13 were 13 fermalee, cquel teen annaal of 16 3 ...

... THE CAUSE OF INFANT MORTALITY. The infant mortality, that was, the deaths of infants under one year of age to each thousand births registered, was considerably higher than the previous year, being 162 . 63, against 70 O. The ...

... regretted to say that the infant mortality —that was, the proportion of . deaths under oue year of age to the number of births—continued to be high. In 1895 Wigton had the unenviable distinction of having the highest infant mortality in the county, 244'68 ...

... established between the rate of infant mortality in different towns and the proportion of married women engaged in factories. Indeed, a.s Mr. Asquith pointed out, sonic of the towns which show the highest rate of infant mortality cannot be classed so manufacturing ...

... diarrhoea, 22,—total 63. The deaths of 183 infants under one year of age had been registered during the year. If they calculated the infant mortality upon the infant population, that was to say, the ratio of infant deaths to registered ...

... of mi t t**feeding',hoO at lastrne fruit. For yecks,Dr:' Higher Sleeting) with special attention to,the high tato :of infant :mortality, and tatutitKing the fart 'O4 so many rents did not pay attention, to the . proper feeding of their young children, and ...

... continue to attribute infant mortality in the alums of town+ to something else than foul air and crowded living may be taken for granted hut a thin we may be tolerably certain. vie • that the beneficent influent, of country milk on infant life in towns will ...

... BOXRS IN ORMOLU. FACTORY LIFE AND INFANT MORTALITY. A deputation from the British bloileal Anode. tins, Oa Wadeesday waited wpm Mr. Asquith to urge the mosesity for leftlslatios with • view of lesseeing Infant mortality, by prevention mother* working is ...

... last seven years.— Mr. Pollock thought there was a good deal to be said for the amendment. There was a great deal of infant mortality due to the fact that the women, on leaving, put their children anywhere. The amendment was carried by nineteen votes ...

... deaths, of whicb. 20 were tbo.e of infants under one year old. This, be says. raises the rate of infant mortality to 330. which is about twice as high as it should be. Dr. Highet suggested that the high rate of infant mortality was due to ...

... 60. INFANT MnRT•LITT. Dr Highs% wrote :—' What specially strikes one with reference to the above figures, is the number of children which have died under one year, nearly one halt of the total, which brings us face to fads with an infant mortality at the ...

... icAat.zr ?EVER of a mild type were obverved, anal :n the fourth 23 canes of whoopinc cough were supervissoo. The rate co: infant mortality aaa slightly in excess of that of 1357. but they bad a 23-nwie rr:e of nil. On a population !Intimated at 2,833, the ...