... WHERE INFANT MORTALITY IS REMARKABLY LOW. At Letchworth (Garden City) there was not a single case of infant mortality during the past {‘ear out of a total fopulation of 5000 pe?le. iven with children of all ages, only one died during the same period. ...

... INFPANT MORTALITY. There has been of late a great increase of enthusiasm among local authorities in the direction of attempting to diminish infant mortality. With this object milk depots have been established, lady inspectors appointed, and various e ...

... stated that the mortality and infectious discase statistics are very satisfactory. There had been 303 births, 151 boys, 152 girls, giving a birth-rate of 38'1. The deaths numbered 113, equal to a rate of 16°8 per thousand. The infant mortality rate per thousand ...

... rate recorded, and I'6 per thousand below that of the ten years 1899 -1908. Most remarkable of all is the decline of infant mortality, the number of deaths of children under one year being 11 per thousand less than in 1908. In these happy circumstances ...

... which the town of St. Helen's has made in establishing a pure milk depdt is said to have greatly reduced the rate of infant mortality, and it has been decided by the citf of York and bf other corporations to follow the example of a public milk supply ...

... two deaths under 12 months and the infant mortality up to date is 150 per 1,000 deaths. Dr. Duncan added that this year so far compared very favourably with anything they had previously had. |he infantile mortality comg.red most favourably with anything ...

... mortalicy of infants, which Mr. Young thought counld be decreased by the appointment ol a large number of women as sanitary inspestors. It may be so, but the thing is by no means certain, seeing that one of the most frequent causes of infant mortality is a desire ...

... found DEATH RATE. This is tabulated under two heads, viz.:—(l) General'Death Rate, and (2) Death rate under 1 year (or Infant Mortality). Total number of deaths 203. Rate 1099 per 1,000 of population. Total numbexr of deaths under 1 year, 46. Rate 103'89 ...

... saved a year. One of the most important directions in which the saving of life has occurred has been in the reduction of infant mortality. Here are the figures :— 1850. 1907. Deaths per 1,000 births 146 118 Thus there is a saving under the new ...

... to criticiee the hich rate of infant mortality. It said, * Parents can make no excuse for the mismanagement of their children 1f they would only feed and clothe them as babes, instead of as grown-up children, the mortality” would be greatly reduced. O ...

... is much mone fatal in infancy than the first, and it accounts for the death of a very large png)urtiun of the yearly infant mortality. roncho-pneumonia is much more likely to attack persons whose general vitality is low; it is a perfect scourge among ...

... much more fatal in infancy than the first, and it accounts for the death of a very large prol;)ortinn of the yearly. infant mortality. roncho-pneumonia iss much more likely to attack persons whose general vitality is low; it is a perfect scourge among ...