... Soap Works, Leeds. Infant Mortality.—Speaking at the seventh annual general meeting of the shareholders of Virol. Limited, held the Holborn Restaurant Friday last, Mr. R. S. Straus, M.P.. referred to the hitrh rate of infant mortality in the country, and ...

... bring into prominence another difficulty about the countryman, that of keeping him alive when he is born. The heavy infant mortality in the villages, due directly to insanitary housing and parental ignorance, is a fact that needs to be recognised by ...

... the establishment of civil registration. the deaths in England and Wales 21,424 were of children under one year of age, infant mortality being 01 per 1000, or 19 Delow the average apd the lowest reoorded in any quarftr since civil registration was established ...

... The death-rate wee 122, being the lowest recorded in the district, with the exception of that in the year 1899. The infant mortality wee 111 per 1000. There had been 19ft notifications of infectious d isemsa. Twelve schools had to be closed on acoount ...

... diminished death-rate may be explained the low rate of infant mortality. average record from 70toM) year or about deaths month—not double that number. But during the three months of this March quarter the infant deaths have been three these having been premature ...

... months of the year explain this result. The infant mortality was under five years. This is very much below tile average of past years. Last year the infant deaths under live were 87. Under one year 50 infants died, tlie percentage deaths under one year ...

... apprentice, for some ye'.rs, became ill; and baker's wife attributed 'too good diet.' Alcohol Child Mortality. Rcfe-ring to infant and child mortality. Dr. Newsholrne remarks: No fact letter established than that the death-rate, and the death-rate among ...

... AGRICULTURAL NOTES. The Max Dunk. —Professor Kenwood, London, in the course of * paper Milk supply and infant mortality' read before the State Medicine Section of the British Medical Association at Exeter, on Thursday, said little educational advance ...

... 0.7; the infant mortality rate is per births. Tha infant mortality rate is slightly abov* the average for your district, and the remaining rates exhibit but little deviation from the mean the preceding deceunium. There were deaths in infants ...

... registered. The birth-rate was 27 per thousand and the deathrate .12.3 per thousand, being the lowest recorded since 1896. Infant mortality was well below the average. There were cases smallpox or enteric, and the scarlet fever was of a very mild type. The ...

... health the town, although I am to say the register shows a serious infant mortality, much above the average. Ten death occurred under one year, and these six were under six months, one infant death was from an unavoidable cause, premature birth ; the rest ...

... a very serious per ceutage, although our infant mortality has in some former years been even higher. The causes this excessive infant mortality we have frequently discussed. There can doubt that many infants die from neglect, intentional ...