... Infant Mortality in Manchester.—At the City Coroner's Court, to-day, three out of four cases heard Mr. Sidney Smelt, the deputy coroner, related to children under two months' old, two of whorr? had been suffocated in bed. Mr. Smelt commented strongly ...

... Infant Mortality.— Testerday, the con cluaiun of inquest, held Chelsea, tlie liody Margaret Daly, aged foar months, the child a which died from suffocation from overlaying, the Coroner (Mr. C. L. Drew) remarked was one of those cases which they had many ...

... to Mr. Asquith that the alleged increase of infant mortality was due to the employment of married women in factories, contends that no constant relation has been established between the rate of infant mortality in different towns and the proportion of married ...

... decrease the mortality among infants. How- ever, the question to be considered for the whole of England and Wales and for every county is not — why did the infant mortality rate rise in one year or fall in another year, but why is the infant ...

... gives the 'mortality (from all causes) under one year. the so celled infant mortality, which is always looked on as an important index to the healthiness and 'Lottery condition of a locality, as follows under one year, 148; rate of infant ...

... and shot and killed his father. INFANT MORTALITY IN LIVERPOOL The report of the medical officer of health, aubmitted at a meeting of the Liverpool Health Committee on Thursday, indicated that the increase in infant mortality from diarrtwea continued, and ...

... apparent, first, that certain towns the infant mortality was abnormally high ; and secondly, that the towns in which the highest mortality prevailed were mostly situate in the north Staffordshire. The high infant mortality in the nortli of ...

... 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 ...

... g. FACTORY LIFE AND INFANT MORTALITY. EVIDENCE BEFORE THE ROYAL COMMISSION. Dr. Tatham, medical officer of health for Manchester, gave evidence to-day before the Labour Commission on the effects of factory life on infant mortality. He showed that in ...

... with regard to what they eall the base and banefal practice cf infusing steam into weaving sheds. They ascribe the heavy infant mortality so prevalent in large towns to the practice of damping, and they urge a modification of the system. ...

... bare not delayed to protest against the conclusions Dr. Bssd, medical officer of County Council, regarding of tsaaaaivu infant mortality tbs Midlands. Dr. Bald pot evil down two facte—tbe alleged drunken habita of the wall-paid operatin' in Potteries, and ...