... INFANT MORTALITY. **• TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. Sir, -The statistics of the London death-rate seem to indicate that 10 infants are every week on an average suffocated in bed. If it is the fact that 520 lives are yearly thus cut short in London ...

... too long hours of labour, improper or insufficient food, and personal habits. The mortality statistics of the Registrar-General showed that the rate of infant mortality was considerably higher in urban than in rural districts, antl Dr. Farr found by comparing ...

... food is cheap. The rate of infant mortality in New Zealand is less than ours, because infants there generally get their natural food, and are not poisoned by artilicial foods and bad milk ; moreover, the insurance of infant lives is rare. — Yours, &c ...

... In examining the alleged connection between high rates of infant mortality in Lancashire and the employment of married women, statistics were given to show that high rates of infant mortality are to be found where but a small proportion of married women ...

... excessive perils of infancy may be traced to poverty. Some curious statistics, however, work out if we consider the rate of infant mortality in connection with the marriage-rate. The latter is a useful index of national prosperity, but regarded generally throughout ...

... wiio were removed to hoe-pitals. was li»*4)9 per 1,00, which • is O'fifi per !.U(i below the averas;e ...

... Mart, City-Freehold Ground Bents, Stamford-hill, East Dulwich, Ilford, ?? at 2. . Starch Poisoning is a great cause of infant mortality. It is avoided by using Horlieks Malted Milk, the starch in which has heen entirely predigested. Highly nutritions, easllv ...

... the Editor — The Fire in the City — The School Board Elections —The Condition of the Army I ! The Wearing of the Hood — Infant Mortality . Mr. Long and the Muzzling Order — The Gallant Piper — The Fate of the Third-class Cruiser— The Statue of James ll. ...

... buildings who were removed to hospitals, was 18*19 per 1,030, which is 3*21 per 1 000 below the average of London. Tbe infant mortality was 133*67 in each 1,000 births, or 20*33 below that of London. Cambridge Local Examinations.— The Class Lists of the ...

... the results in the development of character are much more satisfactory. H»* cited some startling figure* to show the infant mortality in institu- tion?, anl in this connection be incidentally denounced tho Belfast Union Workhouxo as **adi ...

... anl Sheffield, showed a lower infant mortality, and, taking in other large towns, a lower infant mortality for 1896 than any exoept Bristol. The Western group of sanitary districts of London had the highest infant ...

... ages i i considered. As regards infant mortality, the deaths of children under one year in the County of London during 1895 numbered 22 .187. a proportion of 105 per 1,000 births. Loiid-in had a lower infant mortality in 1885 94 than the 10 large towns ...