... INFANT MORTALITY AT BIDEFORD Prebendary Dimond Churchward presided over Tuesday's meeting of the Bideford Guardians. The chairman and the vice-chairman (Mr. W.H.Turner, \ j.p.) were appointed delegates to the South-Western Poor-law Conference.—The Chairman ...

... population of about 7,000. The death-rate in the aren was 32 per 1,000, as against 16 per 1,000 for the whole town. The infant mortality rate was per 1,000 births, as against 157 per 1,000. A medical mission treated in less than three years 1,146 cases ...

... early spring. Births were 157 (24 5 per 1.000), deaths 72 (11 21 per 1,000). Infant mortality, 76 4 per 1 000. Birth and deathrates shewed a decrease. The improper feeding infants was, unfortunately, only two common. ...

... age. The infav. t mortality, with three underdeaihencyearoiage, gave a rate 11. '. per 1,000. The infant mortality was oftentimes the surest inde.\ the good sanitary condition, other wise,.-f community, nut, since one of tbe infants only lived few hour ...

... S. North Devon Infirmary 13 Workhouse 29 Isolation Hospital 1 INFANT MORTALITY. The infant mortality for the year is 86 95 per 1,000 births registered. This is the lowest infant mortality death rate ever ...

... deathrate 12-9 per 1,000. The death-rate the lowest yet recorded, the average for the previous five years being 14*6. The infant mortality was B?*4 per 1,000 born, the average for the i«xst three years being 1074. The deaths attributed to the chief epidemic ...

... The average death-rate for the past five yea-s wm 9-48, and for the past ten 10-20, both eminently satisfactory. The infant mortality was The birth-rate showed improvement, childnen—l3 boy* and 12 girls—having been born, which gave average of 11 28- per ...

... 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 ...

... them it was The average death-rate for the past five years wa-1T75. There had been only one death m;der one year, ihe infant mortality beirg per 1,000 bin he, which whs very sati-factory. There had been nne death trom phthisbi and one from cancer. There ...

... accounted for the increase in thoc'osting year of the Nineteenth Century. Dr. Jackson makes some interesting observations on infant mortality, and we quite agree with him that the County Council might « -Vj include the feeding and bringing up of children among ...

... population at 1,700 was, therefore, 11,07; bat, including all ce.ths, 12 35. Thero were four deaths of infante under 12 mouths, the infant mortality being 133.3 per 1,000 births, which was practically the same as last year. There were two deaths from phthiois ...

... 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 ...