... He proposed tbat they proceed to the next business which was done.- The Mayor made further reference to the matter of infant mortality in Cardiff, mentioning two cases in which two or three children in the same families dipd within a few days (If each ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN CARDIFF. NOT WORSE THAN OTHER TOWNS. The attention of the Cardiff Health Com- mittee being called to the question of the great infantile mortality in Cardiff western district, the Medical Officer stated at a meeting of that body on ...

... of 21,000. The average death rate is found to be 30.3 per 1,000, compared with 21.2 for the rest of the borough. The infant mortality reaches 239.2 per 1,000 births, as ajfainst 168,3 for the rest of the borough, and 150 in the large tgwnsofenitiand. ...

... INFANT LIFE. i At a meeting of the Royal Statistical society in London Dr. Hugh R. Jones, of Liverpool, reitd his prize easay on The Perils and Protec- tion of Infant Life. He said the chief causes of excessive infant mortality were found to depend upon—(1) ...

... kingdom are willing to join in an appeal to Parliament on the subloot. The great district of Camberwell itself, where infant mortality has for some time been mys- teriously high, is being flooded by the Vestry with warnings against this hitherto popular ...

... has an infant mortality as low as 142 per 1,000, and consequently Cardiff, which is free from this great cause of infant mortality, oughb to stand in a very much better relative position. It has been deinonsbrabed that a high rate among ...

... The infant mortality in Cardiff, which had been 132 per 1,000 births in the first quarter of the year, declined to 129 per 1.000 last quarter, as compared with 123 in tbe correspond. lug period of last year; while in Swansea the infant mortality was 5 ...

... not think, he said, it was the intention of those who framed the tariff to put any obstacles in the way of checking infant mortality. At the same time the law of the United States does not think it)afe for scientific appliances which have been imported ...

... The infant mortality in Cardiff, whioh had been 132 per 1,000 births in the first quarter of the year, declined to 129 per 1.000 last quarter, as compared with 123 in the correspond- ing period of last year while in Swansea the infant mortality was 5 ...

... preceding weeks having been 21'5, 28'3, and 26'6. The mortality compared with previous weeks shewed an in- creased infant mortality and a lower number of deaths of old people. The deaths of infants were 17, and those of persons 60 years and upwards 8. ...

... figures point to the social position as the most con- stant factor in the causation of infant mortality. It has indeed been estimated that the rate of infant mortality among thetbnlk of the English population is folly double that which prevails among the ...

... decreased in infant mortality, although there has been an adult increase varying from 2 to 10 times the corresponding increase of small-pox. This proves that tthe beautiful fabric the doctors built on the fact of decreased infant mortality in small-pox ...