... his valuable reports, for Lancashire’s county medical officer must be in possession important statistics bearing upon infant mortality and its cause, and upon the average length of life of the married female factory worker. We have had district reports ...

... greatness due to the cultivating mental and physical stamina and sound moral principle* in her people, rely our terrible infant mortality ought have aroused amongst those who to have closely heart iheor jeperityofournaUuo and the wellbeing the human race ...

... Mr ; Hartley for his services, said b© was pleaaed presented Mr. Hartley a gold-platod key with spoken the subject of infant mortality. In suitable inscription, behalf contractors, efforts they would have commence with the and asked Mr. Hartley to unlock ...

... comprised m the table Uphollaad sad Aspull had the lowest, and Hindis? and Ashtonin Makcrfield had the highest proportion* infant mortality The deaths of elderly persona m Wiran A owed decline of 22 from the preceding number, and ware 12 below As average A ...

... in Newton-io-Makeriield 14.7- Among the 399 deaths Wigan lost quarter there were 99 of infant* under one of age, and of persons aged 60 year* and upwards. The infant deaths were the proportion of 135 per 1,000 births registered during the same period, ...

... rate of 2.2 per 1,000. Phthisis caused 17 deaths. Bronchitis and pneumonia : Kate 3.4. 75 deaths compared with 91 and Infant mortality is high, and in my opinion some deaths might be traced undue exposure to night air and inclement weather. Street paving: ...

... Board (Dr. Arthur Noweholmo). **• emphatic in the assertion that born under condition* favouring low infant I Mortality live longer than in case* where infant is high. Statistics, say*, bear this out and be prints diagram, from which tbe »nduu !8 evident that ...

... against 18.86 fur Che previous year, and 17.6 the averege cate of the ten yean* 1892-1901. The rate cf infant mortality measured the proportion deaths infants under one year of age to thousand registered births was 164, against 191 fur the previous year, and ...

... approved. INFANT MORTALITY : THE BIRTH BATE. Dr. John Chadwick, who proposed the sdo, tion of Iberepoit the Mid wives Act Commiltee —alterwards adopted—mootioued the need ol spraadipg in* formation to mid wives and others with view of checking infant morality ...

... sense. By (or the most startling iacidmt of the meeting of the Institute cn Wednesday was Dr. Reid’s statement to the infant mortality in our artisan centres. His conclusion was that nearly tbrse thousand infanta died in Staffordshire daring the last ten ...

... of the infants were dying from ignorance and neglect, owing to their mothers being employed in th© factories and works Aid'll brilliant and public-spirited medical officer health, St. Panoraa School for has resulted much decreased infant mortality. There ...

... says, that ho is able to submit mortality statistics of favourable character. Although falling birth-rate is usually accompanied by a reduced infant mortality, evidence is not wanting show that conditions affecting infant life, both in the lioroo and home ...