... attention to the number of utioertilied deaths in the Shillington district. There had been fewer deaths under the bead of infant mortality, bat the improvement was not Do great as at first might seem, as the number of births was only 30‘ against 344 is the ...

... excessive infant mortality That this is so. is demonstrated by the j fact'that the deaths of infants under one year , were in the first three quarters 29 . 32. and respectively, and the deaths over one year 117. and 90 this shows that the infant mortality ...

... of scarlet fever and typhoid had been discharged well. The mfant mortality was very low for the qua iter, viz . 69.6 dentils per 1.000 births l*rob.tblv such a low rate infant mortality has befon* U'l-n «»l)taiu«l in Lut«>n. The M«dical « ...

... whatever they may which kill 120,000 infants in England every year maim and injure many more which survive. As Sir Jono Simon (then the Chief Medical Officer of the Privy Council) said manv years ago, high infant mortality necessarily note* a prevalence of ...

... that w« ore within meaaur. kbie distant* bringing about the abolition of infant mortality even within the narrow area this experiment. . the attempt to diminish infantile mortality have often ccme conflict with the doctrinc enunciated a quiet scientific ...

... has nothing whatever to do with the evils on which Lord Battersea animadverted. The subject was the very high rate of infant mortality at Luton and its causes. Now Sir, Lord Battersea asserted that he had the best authority for stating that OHO of the ...

... Wales, the rate 1 mortality among infants under one year of - iier 1,000 registered births was 133, which 1 s per 1,000 below that of last year. The ...

... would not dissolve. In Dr. Blake's opinion this is a cruel fraud, which throws light on the grave question of increased infant mortality. This metallicdressed sugar, imported from abroad, chiefly from Germany, has killed hundreds of babie6, especially in ...

... rate of mortality among infants under one year of age per 1,000 registered births was 121. which is 3 per 1.000 higher than that of last sear. The county mortality (f2.4ti show, slight decrease on last year, when the urban infantile mortality was 107 ...

... counter-balanced by a much greeter mortality from diarrhoea and premature birth. While Dr. Tatham attebutes the increase of the former to the artificial feeding of infants, he gives no reason for the increase in the mortality from the latter,or of the decrease ...

... death of infants, 383, is 17 per cent. of the total number of deaths at all ages. Density of persons per acre. has very little to do with the causation of infant mortality. The relation indeed obtaining between ileasity per acre and iutaut mortality is little ...

... peon, Richmond, who presided at the fifth Housing Reform Conlere-noe at on Saturday, said the •terribly high rates of infant mortality were without doubt closely associated with bad conditions of housing and sanitation, and a few days be loro the last ...