... causes of the high rate of infant mortality in Redditoh and district should be reckoned. I think, the excessive use of soothing syrups. These may not necessarily be given in over doses, but mothers do not realise that while an infant sleeps so many hours ...

... without animal food altogether. The death-rate among both blacks and whitheinDeciember was three times the average, and the infant mortality is very high. Privations are beginning to tell, adds the correspondent, and until we get relief in the shape of proviaions ...

... transmitUd th« mm Mana Finally, It vaa pro rad that nation itaall gran danger to Ufa health, prorad 1» tba graat insraaaa infant mortality lit lav. In aaodarioß aakad, aoold any oonaoiaatlana aolentifio man, after what they knew, defend ▼aooinaboo Oonld any ...

... that of infant m•rtality, which reaches • death•rate of 142 calculated on the total birth.. On this subject Dr. Hill writes :— In my report for 1899 loaned attention, as, indeed, I have often previously dose, to this terrible waste of infant life, and ...

... d urban was tbi. year a very mild one.. Fourteen deaths occurred in infants under one sear of age, the death-:ate being equal to Si) per 1.000 in. habitants, a:..1 the infant mortality hint* being (quid to a rate of 132 deaths per 1,000 births. Thor'. ...

... administrative county (13 3). In view of the sad tale of infant deaths told at the meeting of the Redditch Urban District Council, on Tuesday night, it is gratifying to note that toe mortality rate among infants in the county was lest year rather low, although ...

... large. The Parliamentary Return No. 433, Seaaion 1877, for by Mr. Hopwood, gieee remarkable evidence of the increaae of infant mortality coincident with the extension of Vaccination I It ahowa that in the year 1874—the last year to which the return refer*—there ...

... expenditure, seeing that the work bad been commenced, and could not be completed without it. OLDBURY INFANT= MORTALITY. Tee very high infant mortality ie Oldbury has again called for the attention of the committee, the average rata for the years 1891 to ...

... paragraph ' L sad story. cleansing the desirability of a public day nursery for the proper oars of infante, with a new of diminishing their mortality. Brewing the outline history of moat of the public movement; in Ilsrlditch in the pest, the following ...

... every heart, woe the “mooeoore of the innoeente.” The number child baciolo woe oat of oil true proportion. The rote of infant mortality per 100,000 woe 21,803 in the towne, and 9,717 in the rani dietrieU, or fire children died in our towne for every two ...

... the top in the scale of infant mortality. may not ha as were, but we are still bad enough in all conscience. The total number of deaths in the quarter was fit, and of these 33 were of infants under 5 years. The rate for infants was 9’l, compared with Ifi ...

... else registered. This gives, therefore, figure of mortality 123 per 1.000 registered births, end corn parse very favourably with that ef previous years; fast it is the lowest rale of infant mortality for several years. In treating of isolation aad hospital ...