... over those registered amounts to nearly three-quarters of a million. The error is probably greatest on the returns of infant mortality, which are given at 169 per thousand for children under one year and about 27 for children between the ages of one and ...

... remembered that two of the three years were years of scarcity and famine, when the birth-rate was abnormally low and infant mortality excessively high, while, during the actual period of famine, it was inevitable that the operations should be restricted ...

... They would even conceal their children, so so as to pass themselves, and be paid, as carriers. In order to check the infant mortality, it was often found necessary to give way to the mothers, and pay them for nominal tasks, so long as they took care of ...

... Malarial fevers, always prevalent at the close of the rain, also showed a decrease. Infant mortality was decidedly lower, and the ini• provement in the prospects of infant life is regarded as satisfactory. The history of indigenous plague is confihed to ...

... use the water. The speaker then made remarks on the increase of infant mortality, and move) that a ouiumittee of mediurl mew be appointed to enquire into the causes of this high mortality among ja m as with a view to taking measures to check it. The V ...

... overnor considers that the rate of infant mortality is so high as to deserve close examination. In this connection the attention of the Sanitary Commissioner has been drawn to the appalling rate of infant mortality in Calcutta, and to the fact that in ...

... will be ready to consider any detailed proposals on the subject. INFANT MORTALITY. In paragraph - s -- 1 - 1 - aniiiii - the report interesting figures have been quoted of the rate of mortality among children under one year of age. The average for the pr ...

... additional Food Inspector appointedfor the purpose of controlling these markets in the northern portion of the town. The infant mortality in Calcutta, as we have seen from the recently reviewed Br ngal Health Report, is appalling, and we have little doubt ...

... comparatively free from fever. Infant mortality has, writes a Quetta correspondent, been abnormally frequent here lately in the European families of both the Civil and Military stations, while in one instance an infant was found to have died from the ...

... Cook's recent report regarding infant mortality, owing to insufficient nourishment, we have been favoured with samples of Nestle's Milo Milk Food, which have been specially prepared in order to overcome the great mortality in India caus..d by, insufficient ...

... admits that a great deal has been done to ameliorate the conditions of child-life in poor localities, and that the rate of infant mortality has diminished enormously since the introduction of a universal school system. Still he holds that nearly one-third ...

... then passed' on to deal with the Review on the health of Calcutta, and said that they bad not been able• to lessen the infant mortality of the town. Then else, there was a good deal of malarial fever in and around the city. To prevent the severity of the ...