... tweniy-fivp, 52 twventy- five to sixty, and 84 sixty and nuwards. The infant mortality is highestjin the Blhckpool, end lowest in the Lythbrm Bob-Registrntion district. The infant mortality as registered by the pro- portion of deaths under one year to registered ...

... rate for the past -year ; at the same time the mortality is much higher than it should be, and the diffioulties in the way of obviating so great an expenditure of life aro almost isnsrmountable. Infant mortality still stands at a high figure, and must, says ...

... and upwards. The infant mortality is highest in the Rirhham and lowest in the Lytham sub-registra- tion district. she infant mortality, as registered by the proportion of deaths under one year, to registered births, is 112-8. The mortality ...

... of age disease easily afflicted them, and the result wasappalling. The system of baby farming was the chief cause of infant mortality, the children being deprived practically of the natural sources of nourishment. He thought that there should be separate ...

... too frequently badly housed and with occapations laborious and inimical tohealth. In some of the urban districts the infant mortality was excessive. This sacrifice of the innocents is much to be deplored, and it is the duty of sanitary authorities to ...

... irocecds: The infant mortality (48) is stilt very high in cortain portions oF your district, 11 in excess of lest year; 2S in tic Kirkbsm, 14 in the Fleetwvood, eight in the lBlackpool, and one in Lythmam sab-regtmtrationc districts. The infent mortality is highest ...

... there were no textile factories, the rate -f infantile mortality was very high. A similar state of things prevailed even in such places as Scar- borough and Brighton. In London the infant mortality was higher in the West End than the l1 ast, and in Ireland ...

... birth-rate has been 33-2, compared with 38-6 last year. We have liad 115 deaths registered, an annual rate of 20-9. The infant mortality, so high last year, has, I am glad to say, been less by 16 deaths of children numer one year. The death.rate for the ...

... -with 81-2 per 1,000, then Ince-in- s MakerfialA 80-6, Whitworth 2672, Leigh 25-7, c Aspull 2G-6, Walton-le-Dale 25667. Infant b mortality under one year of age was in the pro. rT portion of 167 deaths to 1,000 births registered. It In the county urban districts ...

... tbo infant rate at 148 and 163 for 83 of the large English towns. The highest infant rate recorded was at Lees, wbere it reached 26i3tj Eirkham tollows with 24 % The excessive infant mortality is generally attributed to improper fesdin of ...

... gratifying item in the accounts of any community. There is one feature in thereturn Which we should like to see improved. Infant mortality is far too high. Last week the dcatihs of seven children who had not completed their first year were recorded and seven ...

... due to 6x~cs5ive in. fantile mortality-to the abnormal number of deaths in the ranks of children under one year old: hence, we may fairly conclude that the declension which has roeontly taiken place in the local mortality rate is almost entirely owing ...