... death rate 13 . 6. Of the deaths during the past year seven occurred in infants under one year, equivalent to an infant mortality of 97 per thousand births. The mean infant mortality in l'etersfield in the years 1803-99 had been 84 per ...

... greater proportion of males than females, tbe disproportion of females over males in later life being due to the heavier infant mortality among the males. ...

... deputation at the House of Commons from public health authorities on the question of infant mortality Mr. Burns, replying after the Prime Minister, said that on the subject of infants' food the deputation would hear with pleasure that tip Local Government Board ...

... Longevity is common in Sweden and Norway. Thus in the former eountry,• mortality, which - in 1880 averaged only , lir per 1.000 inhabitants ' in 1906 had fallen to 14. Infant mortality shrank from 112 to 82 per 1,000. In Norway the rate showed a reduction ...

... latter being over 80, and one over 90. He was particularly pleased to report a very low rate of infant mortality, since the infant mortality amongst infants and children might be taken as a fair criterion of the sanitary condition of the ...

... habit of leaiing their. babies in the care of young 'children. and the re,sult is that Acton lies a higher average rate infant. mortality than any town in the county. The proposal is one of the provisions of thp Actr improvement, which came before a Sele ...

... go out to work and leave her children to be cared for, she said. But we must face things as they are. The terrible infant mortality is due to the fact that the poor nintlr2r is often obliged to neglect her child- The Bishop, after declaring his interest ...

... great towns as a whole infant mortality was equal to 159 per 1,000 births, but in Croydon the proportion was only 181, and in Brighton 132, whilst in Portsmout'a it was as high as 183. Among the 67 other large towns infant mortality averaged 153 per 1,000 ...

... nine occurred in infants under one year of age, equivalent to an infant mortality of 116 . 8 per thousand. This rate was high and had only once been equalled during the past ten years in the district, the average rate of infant mortality ...

... per 1,000, while the infant mortality (a sure test of the sanitary condition of a district) showed a mean rate of 71 per 1,000 births, being rather less than half that of the whole country during the lame period. The annual mortality from zymotic diseases ...

... shewed that during 1894 122 deaths (121 per thousand) were registered in the district, against 121 in 1K93. The rate of infant mortality was slightly higher than in the previous year. Diseases of the respiratory organs caused 25 deaths. Fifty-one persons ...

... is to be blamed for starting the recent unreasoning and unreasonable furore about milk and tuberculosis, resulting in infant mortality in towns. Not very much, perhaps; but there is reason to think that some undefinable amount of blame attaches theieto ...