... 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 ...

... consumption to the healthi- ness of milch cows iIf the county, and the fact that infant mortality was lower in urban than in rural districts to the boiling of milk given to infants in the urban districts. POLLING DISTRICTS CHANGED. The Polling Districts Committee ...

... and the death-rate 17'20 per thousand. The latter shows a saving of nearly ninety lives as compared with the year 1893. infant mortality throughout the county, according to the report, shows a decided improvement, especially in some districts. The highest ...

... man, the wife, and their family. The rooms are damp, there is no ventilation, and it is not suprising that the rate of infant mortality is very high. The closet arrangements are abomin- able; the water supply of two-thirds of the villages ia insufficient ...

... proportion borne by infant mortality to the general rate might be regarded as satisfactory, especially where the fact that there has only been one death from infantile diarrhoea was taken into consideration. The rate of infantile mortality was an excellent ...

... for example, has again to draw attention to the high death rate among infants. While the death rate per thousand of the i whole population is only 159, the death rate among infants under one year of age is 204'2. This is a veritable slaughter of the innocents ...

... during the quarter, one death was found to result from accidental bums, and the other was certified as heart disease. The infant mortality was largely due to whooping cough and convulsions. Influenza was prevalent in the town for a short time, and the day ...

... births exceeded th ? deaths by 78. Infant mortality and accidents Of the 25 deaths of children under one year, 12 were returned as due to premature birth, and three as being caused by diarrhoea. The rate of infant mortality measured by the propor- tion of ...

... says a good deal for the general intelligence of the people, and much for the diligent teaching of medical men, that the infant mortality as as compared with other plaoes is small, and de- creasing. We wonder if the doctors would not also be the first to ...

... were equal to an anneal rate of 25 77 per 1,000 of the population. The births exceeded the deaths by 83. The rate of infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths of children under one year of age, was con- siderably less than last year. Diseases ...

... with more or less severity, and caused the deaths of five persons. I note the marked increase in infant mortality as compared with former years. Twenty infants have succumbed before reaching the age of twelve months, a rate of [285'7 per 1,000 deaths registered ...

... per 1,000, 2 15; death of infants under one year of age, per 1,000 births, 156. Llanfyllin Municipal Borough Births per 1,000, 23'4; deaths per 1,000, 1818; deaths from principal zymotic diseases per 1,000, C'58; deaths of infants under one year of age, ...