... 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 ...

... first two heads were directed against mortality among the infants of factory women; the remedies under the third head were against infant mortality caused by neglect Drunken mothers, Ac, might grossly neglect their infants, and yet, by ...

... great towns of the kingdom. This is a very different record from 1895, when there was an ?? high infant mortality throughout the country, and a yet higher infant ?? in Cheshire and the municipal boroughs of the county. There is still room for great improvement ...

... diarrhoea, the mortality in Cheshire compares very favourably with the mortality iv the whole country and in the large towns. The mortality in Cheshire from smallpox and whooping cough is about equal to that in the whole country The mortality from, fevera ...

... The infant mortality, as measured by the percentage of deaths, under one year of age to births registered was 102. The reduction in the death- rate, as compared with that of 1892, was largely owing to a still further diminu- tion in the mortality of persons ...

... Children were being murdered and slaughtered at the present time, and there was no- doubt that the large proportion of infant mortality could be traced to the drunken habits of those who bore them into the world. He urged the temperance party to stand shoulder ...

... making a death rate of 17*49 per 1,000, and there were 560 births, making a birth rate of 26*38 per 1,000 per annum. The infant mortality for the year was reported at 14107 per 1.000 births registered. Fourteen deaths took place from zymotic diseases, giving ...

... chief zymotic diseases, except scarlatina, the mortality in Cheahire compared favourably with the mortality in the large towns. As regards small-pox, whooping- cough, fever, and diarrhcsa, the mortality was relatively lower in Cheshire than in the whole ...

... injurious to both mothers and their children ; (d) work by mothers in factories is said to injure their infant; children and to augment infant mortality. Or. Tatham (Manchester) and Dr. Ogle maintain this opinion, which the Commissioners think is borne out ...

... conveniently obtained simultaneously with the promotion of the River Dee Improvement Bill. The fact that the high rate of infant mortality is largely due to the injudicious feed- ing of young children by their mothers can no longer be blanched. Its truth has ...

... prevalence of puerper .] fever, which if proper measures are used may be eradicated altogether ; and he athec is the shocking infant mortality caustv by improper feeding.. Upon this Dr. Archei vr Lu^day'3 meeting, i laid great stress. • Deato from improper feeding ...

... the Cheater Workhouae or Infirmary, number 143, and give a death rate of 16 per 1,000 persons living in the district. Infant mortality, aa measured by the percentage of deatha under one year to births registered, is 10.52. There were two deatha from scarlet ...