... HIGH RATE OF INFANT MORTALITY. Present at Thursday's meeting of Hay Rtiral District Council were Mr T. Jones (chairman). Dr. F. J. Jayne, and Messrs. E. D. Weaver, W. Joule, J. Jones, Pryse Goodwin, J. R. Gritlitho, James Gunter (clerk), A. LT Ricketts ...

... Vital DECREASE IN INFANT MORTALITY. The quarterly return of births, marriages, and deaths. issued by the Registrar General recentiv. shows that during the three months ended June 30 last 306.037 births and 160.895 deaths were registered in the United ...

... Brynmawr District Council. ALARMDTO INFANT MORTALITY. The monthly meeting of this council woo held on Wednesday evening in the Market Chambers. There were present—Councillors J. Bloor, W. Roberts, R. Evans, A. J. Mark. all, D. Owen, R. Jones, E. Saab's ...

... at the Presbyterian achoolrooni. on April 4th. Mrs Crwya Willisma_presided. Resolution* dealing with the Prevention M infant mortality, and a request to His Majesty's Government to insert a donee in their promised Licensing Bill, to make it illegal to ...

... Infantile llonaJity. Referring to infant mortality, the speaker quoted statistics shoeing how enormously the (loath rate among infanta had during the past 10 years. In Cardiff about :OW children sere horn every year, and taking the rati.• the tlecreaso ...

... Brittany. the Vosges. Picardy. Maine. The population of the Orne has diminr.lied by 80.000 in the of the last 25 years. infant mortality increases. In th e valley of the Vosges it was neneasary in to replace 60 per cent, of the military con- • tingent. ...

... proper disorimination, said Dr. Willoughby. condensed milk might be depended upon to do a great deal in the limitation of infant mortality during • the first year of life, if only ignorant prejudices were removed. —*— ...

... Durham. 17.3; Monmouth. 18.0; Glamorgan. 17.1; Cardigan, 18.7: Merioneth. 18.8. The returns show still another record. In infant mortality 1905 reveals the lowest rate known, the deaths of children being 17 per 1,000 fewer than in 1961. ...

... and pneumonia 4; heart disease 4; diseases of kidney 1: of brain 2. couvulsion. 5 ; senile decay 3: All other canoes 4 Infant mortality wa• again high. 3 deaths a:curing of children under 5 years et age. He 'bought that should have fewer cases of convulsions ...

... ended 31st December, 1902, was read as follows: Vital statistics—Death rate, 10.7 per 1.000; birth rate, 25. sper 1,000; infant mortality, 72.5 per 1,000 births; phthisis death rate, nil; death rate for diseases of the chest (excluding phthisis), 2.8 per ...

... had taken place during the Ilea three years. The birthrate was 21.03 per 1.000, which low, and the deathrate 16.62. The infant mortality was low. A rate of 78.94 per 1,000 births was registered. Only 13 deaths occurred between 3 and 70, giving a deathrate ...

... pneumonia, and .1 to rams-r. Strangely. the number of deaths in 19135 and ltnei was the same, via., 76. as also was that of infant mortality under twelve months, viz.. With respect to infectious disease& mead.vt was generally prevalent through the whole district ...