... statistics show that the prospect of reducing infant mortality at age* under month is not very hopeful one. caoae* being remote, but they also show that th causes of much of the mortality among the older infants can avoided, and (should le removed. ATHS ...

... unenviable position among the £reat towns the light of last week’s mortality returns. With the exception of Salford, the city shows the highest death-rate recorded ; and the Norwich mortality stands at 28 per thousand, compared with average of 18 per thousand ...

... increasing at the rate ot! a thousand a day we in this country have become somewhat callous on the score of an excessive infant mortality. The case is different in France, one of the countries of which his lordship was probably where the population has begun ...

... inchuded 135 of infants under one year of age, and 153 of of 60 The mfant deaths were in page of 164 per 1000 the same period, and among the pars of the borough the infant mortality varied from 120 in Coslany, to 264 in East Ww verage infant in Norwich forthe ...

... their demands and tnsupported their statements Medical-officers have recently asserted that the cow is responsible for infant mortality in towns, and apparently without any proof further than the possibility of it. In the recent Government inquiry the ...

... were 117, 14*6 per 1000 ; whilst there were only 39 deaths in Sub-District, or 10*4 per 1000, against 71 in 1898. The infant mortality was 99*6 per 1000,which compares favourably with previous years. There were 45 caSOg of infectious disease notified in ...

... penny subscribed went to the object of the Federation. Mm. Buxton, of Lockennatn Manor. Swindon, spoke the excessive mortality among infant*, due to the ignorance of mothers, and of the great good that might b« done by the district nurses in teaching mothers ...

... quarter, and average of 193 for the time of year; the decreased infant mortality last quarter being due the smaller number of deaths registered as due diarrhoea. Among the sub-districts the infant m: rtahty varied between 130 per 1000 births in West and 2J6 ...

... forgotten. and that they bad their sympathy. Mita Bernard Boyce, in able address gave statistics of the high rate of infant mortality in varions parts of the country, and bow it hud decreased in these parts covered trained nurses, compared with those ...

... also been registered 242 deaths, being 14*1 per thousand. The zymotic death-rate had been o*/5 per thousand, and the infant mortality per thousand births. During the year cases scarlet fever had been notified, attended by 2 deaths. There had been 6 eases ...

... ten years i* 13.2. The wastage by death of children under one year of age still continues to ahow a steady decline. The infant mortality ...

... w rou tle and Mr record the act im the vies-charr that it ws gradual! y decluunyg During the weir Just concluded the infant mortality Ww ae cheqa wae drawn in ol the 2? 105 6, ‘ 1 ure in 5 Tha 41 ae oo paired with n 1907, und 1215 the hetug toe ocond ...