... INFANT MORTALITY IN CARDIFF. NOT WORSE THAN OTHER TOWNS. The attention of the Cardiff Health Com- mittee being called to the question of the great infantile mortality in Cardiff western district, the Medical Officer stated at a meeting of that body on ...

... of 21,000. The average death rate is found to be 30.3 per 1,000, compared with 21.2 for the rest of the borough. The infant mortality reaches 239.2 per 1,000 births, as ajfainst 168,3 for the rest of the borough, and 150 in the large tgwnsofenitiand. ...

... has an infant mortality as low as 142 per 1,000, and consequently Cardiff, which is free from this great cause of infant mortality, oughb to stand in a very much better relative position. It has been deinonsbrabed that a high rate among ...

... The infant mortality in Cardiff, which had been 132 per 1,000 births in the first quarter of the year, declined to 129 per 1.000 last quarter, as compared with 123 in tbe correspond. lug period of last year; while in Swansea the infant mortality was 5 ...

... not think, he said, it was the intention of those who framed the tariff to put any obstacles in the way of checking infant mortality. At the same time the law of the United States does not think it)afe for scientific appliances which have been imported ...

... preceding weeks having been 21'5, 28'3, and 26'6. The mortality compared with previous weeks shewed an in- creased infant mortality and a lower number of deaths of old people. The deaths of infants were 17, and those of persons 60 years and upwards 8. ...

... decreased in infant mortality, although there has been an adult increase varying from 2 to 10 times the corresponding increase of small-pox. This proves that tthe beautiful fabric the doctors built on the fact of decreased infant mortality in small-pox ...

... whooping cough. The infant mortality was 10, and that cf old people 7. Five deaths werw ascribed to violence. Nine inquests were held during the week under consideration, and siy deaths occurred in our public institutions. The rates of mortality in the several ...

... INFANT LIFE. PERILS AND PROTECTION. At a meeting of tha Royal Statistical Society in London Dr. Hugh R. Jones, of Liverpool, read his prize essay on The Perils and Protec- tion of Infant Life. He said the chief causes of excessive infant mortality were ...

... were half-starved. Such was his story of the domestic life he had experienced for the past 12 months. No wonder that infant mortality is so great in somo districts. ...

... Falkland Islands are free from bronchial complaints. The rate of infant mortality for 1889 will be represented by the figures 43 per 1,000 this is very low, as the annual rate of infant mortality for England and Wales for the 10 years 1871-1880 was 149 per ...

... in the corresponding period of last year. The medical officer remarked that the death-rate continued to be very. high, infant mortality especially being great. ...