... regarding infant mortality in that eity are interesting, and no doubt generally sound. The Lieutenant Governor does not, however, concur in attributing the excessive mortality to bad midwifery ; for although this is no doubt an important factor in infant mortality ...

... THE BURMESE BABY. HOW IT IS FED. INFANT MORTALITY IN BURMA. The report on the Sanitary Administration of Burma in 1901 says :—lt is not surprising that a large proportion of the infantile population should succumb during the first year of life, considering ...

... incidence in this country is improved sanitation, which, as Leicester's 30 years' experience proves, greatly lessons infant mortality, if coupled with the disuse of vaccination. The proposal, therefore, to make re-vacciwition , compulsory at the age of ...

... unhealthy. There was a considerable rise in the general mortality, the number of deaths reFistered being 1,922,369, or 38•53 per nulle, the highest on record for the past twenty years. Infant mortality shows a very alarming rise from 183 . 4 per mills in ...

... remembered that two of the three years were years of scarcity and famine, when the birth-rate was abnormally low and infant mortality excessively high, while, during the actual period of famine, it was inevitable that the operations should be restricted ...

... They would even conceal their children, so so as to pass themselves, and be paid, as carriers. In order to check the infant mortality, it was often found necessary to give way to the mothers, and pay them for nominal tasks, so long as they took care of ...

... Malarial fevers, always prevalent at the close of the rain, also showed a decrease. Infant mortality was decidedly lower, and the ini• provement in the prospects of infant life is regarded as satisfactory. The history of indigenous plague is confihed to ...

... overnor considers that the rate of infant mortality is so high as to deserve close examination. In this connection the attention of the Sanitary Commissioner has been drawn to the appalling rate of infant mortality in Calcutta, and to the fact that in ...

... will be ready to consider any detailed proposals on the subject. INFANT MORTALITY. In paragraph - s -- 1 - 1 - aniiiii - the report interesting figures have been quoted of the rate of mortality among children under one year of age. The average for the pr ...

... additional Food Inspector appointedfor the purpose of controlling these markets in the northern portion of the town. The infant mortality in Calcutta, as we have seen from the recently reviewed Br ngal Health Report, is appalling, and we have little doubt ...

... comparatively free from fever. Infant mortality has, writes a Quetta correspondent, been abnormally frequent here lately in the European families of both the Civil and Military stations, while in one instance an infant was found to have died from the ...

... it certainly seems hardly astonishing that infant mortality runs high in the Laccadives. Exposure on Mount Taygetns or legalised infanticide would hardly show more disastrous returns. If the unfortunate infant did not die of a diet of rice at twenty days ...