... INFANT MORTALITY IN LIVERPOOL. s At a meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Ha Societ. held last evening at the Royal Instita- S, a tion, Oolquitt-street, Principal Rendal in the chair, a a papr on Excesive Infant Mortalitv in Liver. Je yv Vool: ...

... said he found tat ' as infant mortality was much greater am.Nc ink artificially - fed than among naturally i-fe )an children. Infant mortality in the north Lb ler England was much higher than in the seot e. The total average mortality of ...

... presented G in the report for 1895. Then there was an ex- B ceptionaily high infant mortality in the whole s country and the large towns, and a yet higher Ii infant mortality in Cheshire and the municipal boroughs of Cheshire. However, though the v record ...

... special inquiry has been undertaken during the past summer by the wfomen in ornto the cause s of the unusually high rate of infant mortality, and the reult seems to show most incontestably tatu improer feoding is more responsible for ienfant deaths than any ...

... sbout. h, mg and running about. Certainly germs of o1 any kind had a fair chance, if they liked, to make P an attack Infant mortality mway well be high 83 when we as the evils they are subjected to, even IN in a well-r~ld tshooL through the waat of S ...

... Alderman Dr. Bligh remarked that he had no doubt much of the infant mortality in the city was due to the presence of bacilli in milk, which was now so largely used as a food for infants. As cowkeepers and rate- payers in the city of Liverpool, we ...

... which the medical officer and his staff carried out the work 3- of inspechton in Liverpool. She referred to the rate of infant mortality, and ex-pressed a hope ] ?? the work of the association would produce sr osme beneficial effect in that direction. Having ...

... nursing and feed- ing of infants, is mentioned as the cause of many infant deaths.- Much danger arises from want of Cleanliness of the child's envirorent, &o,, affecting, as it does,-not infrequentlyf the whoesomeness of the infant food to such an extent ...

... of the population, while the mortality amongst infants alone was ten times that figure. He believed that this serious morbality was largely due to the use of acid preservatives put into the milk 4ood supplied to the infants by iheir parent. Dr. Hope stated ...

... ro-ra:' in Preston from 1670-79 was 29027 ?? '.nd from 13880-8 is wef;t 25-43, showing 4k'rS;V it o vear 4 per Cent. The infant mortality c ttsua; ?? 264 per 1000, against 17t in cltrwn W'd 144 for England and Wales. rtrs fever is uklnown in Preston. The ...

... class women. The creche, or infant day asylum, could not supply the place of the maother who had to stay in a workshop or factory. The M inister. quotoig DMa Laigneas and Bertillon, stated that the quota of infant mortality due to want of maternal care ...

... death-rate of 17.49 per 1000; and 560 births, giving a birth- rate of 2&38 per 1000. Seventy-three infants under one year of age died, giving an infant mortality of 141.07 per 1000 births registered. There were 14 deaths from zymotic diseases, giving a zymotic ...