... life to keeping lodging houses for summer visitors. In many former reports attention had been called to the exaggerated infant mortality due to deficiencies in domestic care, treatment and nursing. As one means of education and of spreading knowledge in ...

... accounted for that by the fact that there was a trained nurse to give di- rections and superintend the care of the sick. The infant mortality in Abergele was high, and she was informed that that resulted not from carelessness, but ignorance. If they had a district ...

... have carrinl supervision of dairies In the ol deaths reported during the vest, twelve were among in fonts. That rate of infant mortality was rather heavier than ought be, and it was step in the right direction to adopt the Dairies act. As air and sunlight ...

... Jones, M.D., a MBr Herbert E. Davies, B.Sc., newydd wneyd adroddiad a darawodd y ddinas hono a dvchryn am yr Extensive Infant Mortality in Liverpool, ao yn dangos, tri nad yw marwolaethan babanod am y deyrnas end 142 am bob mil o enedigaethau, fod v e ...

... the ages of one and five years. In the absence of any epidemic the infant n ortality was too high. The main cause was to re found in tbe character of the houses in ■which the infants were born Jmd died. They were hcuies fauitly in construction and design ...

... rate. With regard to ?? mortality it would be seen from his report that the rate ase very low, bot 3 still there was room for improvemenut and Rrset ; attention should be paid to every meanw of reducing tbe rate of infant mortality. He produced a num- ber ...

... INFANT MORTALITY, The number of deaths under five years was 43, being at at the rate of 4-4 per 1,000 per annum. In infants under one year there were 29 deaths, being in the proportion of 141 deaths to every 1,000 births, as compared with 128 per I 000 ...

... the committee's report. Satisfaction was expressed at the low death-rate and the decrease in the mortality. A notable decrease was in the infant mortality. In regard to zymotic diseases the committee expressed their satisfaction in seeing that ionly one ...

... l officer in his annual report for 1891 gave the death-rate in the borough at 22 6 per 1OW instead of 21'8,, and the infant mortality at 191,9 per 1000 instead of 152 per 1000.-The Surveyor stated that he bad written to the medical officer on the subject ...

... was at the rate of 18'2 per 1,000 per annum, the infant mor- tality being 40.7 per 1,000 births registered. THE DEATH RATE, AND CAUSES OF MORTALITY. Mr. Edward Roberts asked what was the rate of mortality compared with the previous year. The Medical Officer ...

... from pithisis and respiratory diseases 6ther than phthisis 6di' nob differ much 'from the generfa avefiRee, while thh infant mortality, 70'92 per 1000; births,.did not. quite reach the balft ot these averages. The birtb- rate6 '2615 per 100Dof population ...

... elsewhere. The infantile mortality is very low, (12 in 152 —viz. 78 94; and it is a recognised fact that mortality is considered a good index to the sanitary condition of any district; and it is satisfactory to notice that this mortality is gradually decreasing ...