... shillinugys and co wts wa imposed. A particular feature in the report was that attention was directed to III excess in the infant mortality during the past years, not due to infectious diseases but to gteneral causes. Among general causes insufficient nursing ...

... hirthrate in their district was 26 8; but taking Englirid and Wales it was 31 6. Mr Borthwiok furoher priinted-out that infant mortality was at the rute of 149 per thousand In 1heir distriot as compared with 136 per thousand inEngland. Ie made there comparisons ...

... moortality frix zymotic diseases 'was seven, ivhioh, according te the ratio for England and Wles, was very low, The infant, mortality iri the district under one Year of age Iwas 26, The morteiti from phtlkbibW ve TI-: A large emount of sanitary work ...

... Not a single death had been ragistered under any of the zymotie diseases. 'l0be infant mortality wta 92-5 per 100 birthp, that of England and Wales being 148. The mortality from reepira- tory diseases acompared very favourably with the general averages ...

... year was 89. The infant mortality in the district was consider- ably under that ot the average for Bngland and Wales, but vwae still too biMh, and he attributed the cause entirely to the injudicious feeding and man. agement of infants. The zymotic deatbrate ...

... registered. The deaths were from ordinary causes, and from 66 years up. .wards. It was gratifying tonotice the absence of infant mortality, RAILWAY AND POSTAL FACILITIS. Mr THEODOns Rouw said as one of the deputation that waited upon Mr Neele, at Danbigh, ...

... rate. With regard to ?? mortality it would be seen from his report that the rate ase very low, bot 3 still there was room for improvemenut and Rrset ; attention should be paid to every meanw of reducing tbe rate of infant mortality. He produced a num- ber ...

... l officer in his annual report for 1891 gave the death-rate in the borough at 22 6 per 1OW instead of 21'8,, and the infant mortality at 191,9 per 1000 instead of 152 per 1000.-The Surveyor stated that he bad written to the medical officer on the subject ...

... from pithisis and respiratory diseases 6ther than phthisis 6di' nob differ much 'from the generfa avefiRee, while thh infant mortality, 70'92 per 1000; births,.did not. quite reach the balft ot these averages. The birtb- rate6 '2615 per 100Dof population ...

... decreased mortality among infants and in the class of all other diseases. The zymotio mortality,, though slightly above that of 1805, was considerably lower than that of England aad IWales. It is grati- fying to learn that the zymotie mortality in this ...

... and the death.rste shows a very satisfactory lowerinz. The zvmotic morta!itV and the mortality amone infants and aged persons shows a ?? improvamerlt up-)on the mortality in 1893. The needi of a err a'l infectious disieases hospital hes been consideralry ...

... Wales being 17. But this is accounted for by an epidemic of mea- sles, and we feel that if it were possible to reduce infant mortality-and the death-rite of children under five years of age, means would be found to reduce the general death-rate of the ...