... his annual report, Dr. Gooding, Medical Officer of Health for Bideford, draws attention to the alarming fact that the infant mortality in the borough amounts to no less than per thousand. The Medical Officer added that he had on former occasions alluded ...

... eases of membranous croup, proved fatal. Four children under the age of 12 months died, the infant mortality being 80 per 1,000 births, a much lower infant mortality than in former years. The adoption of the Infectious Diseases Notification Act, which came ...

... especially to young children, who bad to sit at achool in wet boots. Due precautions had been taken against the cholera. Infant mortality in the Borough was high. Births during the year, 237 ; Deaths 153, the death rate being 19.1 per thousand.—Mr. Narraway ...

... previous year), and bronchitis, pneumonia and pleurisy 33. For zymotic diseases the death-rate was 1 per thousand, and the infant mortality was 80 for the year. Rainfall was 7in. and Bin. above the average—a very important factor in a district which possessed ...

... males, 108 females), or a rate of 2881 ; deaths, 165 (83 males, 82 females), or rate of ; zymotic disease rate, 2 rate of infant mortality to birth per thousand, 16386; deaths from cancer, 7. ...

... total ..umber of births to be 100, with a birth rate of 3F32 per thousand, while the death rate was per thousand, an infant mortality 170 73 per thousand. A 1 was received from Mr. Wilson Hoare, Commons, Westward H.., stating that he was willing that ...

... rate of 14.7 ; Sonthmolton Rural district had 99 deaths, rate of 16\3, and Exmoor 2 deaths, a rate of 6 3 A'though the infant mortality is less favourable than former years, the other hand the number of deaths over 60 is considerably above any former years ...

... stop to the railway traffic on the Milwaukee Road, U.S. Sand boxes proved useless in overcoming the plague. The rate of infant mortality is enormous. In round numbers, 5,000,000 liabes never live long enough to talk, 5,000,000 more never have a chance to ...

... the year, or a rate of per 1,000; deaths 148, or rate of 145. Deaths from zymotic disease were 12, showing rate of 1*1; infant mortality was 102:4. The local rainfall up to October was from se\ en to inches, and below the average of the past ten yearn. As ...

... Ystradyfodwg, and 212 in St. Helen-. In u remainder of the country, after excluding those towns, the infant mortality was 116 per tjirtns registered The mortality of persons aged between one and years was at the rate of 9 deaths annually per 1,000 tbe estimated ...

... period of twelve months. It was doubtful, however, if infant life was properly protected in Ilfracombe, Their infant death-rate was four points higher than the national rate. In examining the causes of infant deaths the report said that tubercular disease had ...

... death rate being 13-69. Of the above deaths 41 were under five years of age. Of these 25 were under 12 months, rate of infant mortality (i.e., of children under one year) per of 84.5. At the other extremes of life sixty-one were over 70, and of these 27 ...