... INfANT MORTALITY IN CARDIFF. of his aunual report the OardiC Medioal Officer makes some observations on infant mortality. The rate of infant mortality in Cardiff, as measured by the proportion of deaths of ...

... Walford, medicinl officer of health for the county borough of Cardiff, lectured on Infant Mortality and the Rearing of Children. In his opmion infanbile mortality formed a good teat of the sanitary condition of a district. The causes of death among ...

... during the previous quar- ter being 132. Zymotic diseases were respon- sible for 56 fatalities, and there was a very high infant mortality, the deaths of children under one year of age being 123. This was unprece- dented in hie experience, the chief causes ...

... The infant mortality in Cardiff, whioh had been 132 per 1,000 births in the first quarter of the year, declined to 129 per 1.000 last quarter, as compared with 123 in the correspond- ing period of last year while in Swansea the infant mortality was 5 ...

... this generation that the infant mortality shoul so great throughout the country as it is. TJ bogey which attributed it to infant insurance thought had been disposed of. of Dr. Walford said that a, common source trouble with infants WM tainted milk, too kept ...

... CHILDREN. Infant Mortality in Cardiff. At the usual weekly Blue Ribbon meeting held at the Stuart-hall, Cardiff, on Saturday night, Mr David Shepherd presiding, Mr Percy Thomas spoke with some vigour upon the question of in- fant mortality and its causes ...

... ordinary residence was in the borough, but who died outside the municipal boundary. rate of infant mortality, as measured by the proportion of deaths of infants under one year to 1,000 biiths registered, was 160, as compared with 148 in 1891. In the 33 ...

... HEALTH OF GLAMORGAN, Primitive Sanitary Arrangements. ABNORMAL INfANT MORTALITY. The quarterly meeting of the Glamorgan County Council Sanitary Committee was held at the County Offices, Cardiff, on Friday. Mr Henry Lewis (Greeniuead iw) was re-eleebed ...

... against 2,034 last year—an increase in 1895 of 437. Counoiilor E. Beavan called attention to the large proportion of infant mortality in the past quarter, and asked if any explanation could be riven. The Chairman said Dr. Walford (medical officer of health) ...

... the fa.ct that the infant mortality in artisan towns **ceeds by 100 per cent, that over agricultural Unties, where also there were many **e»th8 that were preventive. He also staged N the statistics of Staffordshire showed that infants died in that county ...

... Pembrey sub-district has an acreage of and an estimated population of 6,680. The birth- rate was 30*23 per thausand, the infant mortality being greater than in either of the other districts- The death-rate cf 20 18 was returned for the pans'1 of Pembrey ...

... reported that during the four weeks ending Sept. 2nd the death rate was 28 0 per 1,000. This high rate was caused by tha infant mortality and deaths among young children. Out of 342 deaths 192 were of children under one year of ago. Diarrhosa was the most ...