... wholesale baby-farming, practised by even the well-to-do married coup!as, and still more by the poor, and the extensive infant mortality. The Empress Frederick has ordered four silk dresses for the Princess Victoria's trousseau iu Athens. The silk dresses ...

... 22'2 Wol- verhamptOD, 233 Liverpool, 27*1 Preston, 264 and Newca?'!e, 21'0. INFANT MORTALITY. The rate of infant mortality as measured by the proportiou of deaths of infants under one year to 1,000 births registered was 171, as compared ...

... 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 ...

... was equivalent to a i zymotic rate of 053 per 1000. Five children had died under one year of. age, giving a rate of infant - mortality of 9259 per 1000 births. This rate was in t excess of that for the first quarter of 1898 (68 95), but r below that of ...

... death-rate of 17.49 per 1000; and 560 births, giving a birth- rate of 2&38 per 1000. Seventy-three infants under one year of age died, giving an infant mortality of 141.07 per 1000 births registered. There were 14 deaths from zymotic diseases, giving a zymotic ...

... deaths among children under one year of age were 123, giving the very high infant mortality of 448. The figures for the same per ad last year being 69 deaths and an infant mortality of 164. Of tee total deaths 42 took place n July, 130 in August, and 88 ...

... iomeaus slaughtered their infant r children -we are sacrificing, not alone children, but youths and maidens, and men - and women in ; their prime. Few of our population live out aI their days. In regard to the escessive infant mortality - of modern life it ...

... an exceptional circumstance, and is due to the epidemic of last. spring, from, which many of the tenants suffered. The infant mortality was 141-22 in each 1,000 births, or 21-39 below that of London. ...

... y V In Swansea the infant mortality to quarter was 79 per 1,000 births lower t in Cardiff,' and was only 127, as compjix^ with 105 in the previous quarter and 155 in third quarter of last year while in the 33 to the infant mortality last qua>rter averaged ...

... the danger to which they were exposed. Infant Mortality: Eleven-hundred and idnety-nine children died last year under one year of age; and, as there were 8,911 births bregistered, we find the rate of infant mortality was 134. In'1889itwas 128, a tride lower ...

... atten- tiun to the infant mortality in Stourr'dge, aud to other matters referred to in the report of the medical olficer for m\ ercestot hire. In the past yesr seventy-seven i chi'dren died under one year of age, whereas had .ha I infant death-raie been ...

... In number. In the matter of infant mortality the figures for the past year showed that while the deaths of children up to the age of five were far too numerous, yet that there wass an appreciable improvement so far as infants under one year were concerned ...