... DUKINFIELD'S INFANT TOLL. The rate of infant mortality at Dukinfield during the past month, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births was equal to 171 per 1,000, compared with 95 per 1.000 last year. ...

... fact that one out of every six children born there last year died before the end of twelve months adding that the rate infant mortality, 166 thousand, had never ,been exceeded there. ...

... with regard to what they eall the base and banefal practice cf infusing steam into weaving sheds. They ascribe the heavy infant mortality so prevalent in large towns to the practice of damping, and they urge a modification of the system. ...

... STERILIZER. Some years ago a milk depot was inaugurated Dukinfield considerable expense, with view to decreasing the infant mortality in the town, but proved a failure, and the apparatus was consigned the basement of the Town Hall. At last night's Council ...

... of the Ancoats Homos' Sooioty at New Islington Hall. Councillor Boyle presided. The lecturer dealt with the auhieot/of infant mortality, wtoeh, contended, was due to the .neglect, ignorance, and intemperance of mothers. The deputy judge County Court yesterday ...

... conditions described by Dr. call for early reform, remarks the medical officer. On the question of infant mortality Dr. Sweeting says: The excessive infant mortality in Leigh borough is not to wondered at seeing that the borough is an urban district of a county ...

... THE MOTHER'S HELP & INFANT LIFE Yesterday, during a discussion the Charity Organisation Society at Denison House, London, on infant mortality, Colonel Mayers remarked that when a woman of the richer classes married she knew no more how to care for a ...

... London, and Manchester, for diploma of Public Health! and Milroy Lecturer. He is an authority on overcrowding, housing, infant mortality, tuberculosis milk, and the industrial and social relationship jf disease to health. ...

... lowest on record for the borough, while the birth rate, 23.31 per 1,000, was the highest recorded since the year 1900. Infant mortality, 129 per 1,000 births, shows a very satisfactory decline, and with one exception, the year 1902, was the lowest recorded ...

... the Secretary. Stockport and the Rearing of Infants. At the monthly meeting of the Stockport School Atfcen: dance Committee yesterday. Mr. T?edfern reported the committee that owing to the high infant mortality tbe town the Sanitary Committee had approved ...

... offers to give £15,000 for the erection of a free public library building for Plymouth. One of the principal reasons why infant mortality is so high, said a medical witness at Marylebone County Court, is that nursing mothers have acquired the habit of taking ...

... lowest on record for the borough, while the birth rate. 23.31 per 1.000, was the highest recorded since the year 1900. Infant mortality, 129 per 1,000 births, shows a very satisfactory decline, And with one exception, the year 1902, was the lowest recorded ...