... serious a mortality among infants. In Coseley, about where the infant death-rate is higher than usual, Mr. Cleudinnen i says: -The cause, I fear, is to be found in the gross ignorance of the working classes in regard to the feeding of infants. It would ...

... cause of infant mortality. Dr. Bosrecy HiLL disagreed wite D~r. Swete as to the crise of infant mortality. Lie spoke upon investigationsrecently made to clear up a point, and those investigations indicated that nearly all cases of infant ...

... question of infant mortality was one of the highest importance, and Dr. Reid was only discharging his duty when he insctitsted an enquiry into it. Speaking as one of a deputation to the Home Secretary the ocher day, lDr. Reid stated that the infant ] vorcalisy ...

... was aareed ?? tos the question of infant mortality, the Chairrm an said from what he learnt wliten a tnember of the Itursle:n 6anirary Authority, he was toned to a~ree with Dr. Peid t at there was far too much infant mortabty in the district, and he thought ...

... proportion of infant deaths in Lower Gornal,' . where forty-eight infants died, for the mothers of these. infants must leave their children for many hours daily . without proper care or nourisamert. With reference I to the infant mortality ...

... 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 ...

... technical training for girls, showing what serious social troubles. arose from the want of it. She traced the excessive infant mortality and a large portion of the vice, discomfort, end sickness in the homes of the working classes to the faulty and inadequate ...

... The s average death-rate for the past ten years was 15-9 per S 1,000. During the year 131 infants under one year of age died, the annual rate of infant mortality being equal to 158 per thousand of registered births. The seven chief , zymotic diseases caused ...

... and the death-rate was an exceptionaljy low tI one-ia fact, one of the smallest ever recorded in the 51 borough. The infant mortality was proportionately a higher. but not quitu so great as in August. Deaths a from diarrhea in chi'dren were under the ...

... English towns the mean rate of infant mortality did not exceed 16-1 per cent. of the births, and in fifty other lar-e rcown districts the Dnrcesnae *.vas also 16-1. With regard to the constant excess of infann mortality in Hanler, he points out that the ...

... check. A comparison with previous; years showed that the general death-rate, the zyrmotic death-rate, and the rate of infant mortality were ?? siderably below the average. '[he Clork (Mr. Tbompscn} read the report of the Infectiops DiseasesI Hospital Committee ...

... continued to forum a la-s port ?? 0 ' tality. W'Vhoopingol *as ca ier Ldoa Vh w iw and influenza had Leen ertensnvelv Prii infant mortality was higher thou ror A'I month. Six cases of ?? fexer, and 2 of erysipemas hat; Ue ?? On the recommendation of the San' ...