... show a reduced deadline as compared with last year. and we are particularl Pleased to note an improvement in regard to infant mortality. The details given in the report show that even in the rural villages within his jurisdiction the post of Medical Officer ...

... prisons for the criminals that it creates. And to this picture may be added a diminution of the birth-rate, an increased infant mortality, and a swelling of the number of idiots and cripples, children of drunkards, wrecks of the race and burdens on the community; ...

... Wales. The rate of infant mortality in the county is particularly striking. Since 1893 it has increased from 130.1 per 1,000 to 17.4 per 1,000, taking the average for the whole county. But in Festiniog the rate of infant mortality for the year was no ...

... the Hemp:teed Garden Suburb is ircluded. says that the death-rate in the suburb last year was only 1.6 per 1,000, and infant mortality none. Three of the four deaths that took place were tho.e of persons more than sizty..6te years of ...

... of which is ta enable public authorities to erect abattoirs and to close slaughterhouses. - - - tbe view of ;educing infant mortality.' the St. Pancras Boroagh Conceit bas decided to pay to the father. or, failing him, to the midwife, mediral student ...

... those visits are welcomed, and that with tact and kindliness an immense amount of good work may be done. The high rate of infant mortality is due much more to ignoranos than to (*roles*. seas or indifference, and it is the business of the community to dispel ...

... we are, unlike ancient societies, actually practising male infanticide to an alarming extent. Very glibly we talk of infant mortality and discuss the figures set forth cold print, but, alas! how little do we apparently realise all that is implied in ...

... wore deaths from zymotic diseases. The infant mortality was considerably this year as compared with last year and some fonner years. In many former years'lreports, attention has bean drawn to the infant mortality, and proportion infanta to other deaths ...

... —One death titan diarrhcea was registered, a over 63 years of age. Infant Mortality.—There were 34 deaths reps. tared among children under one yesr of giving a rate of infant mortality of per t.OOO births, as cornpared with 16.1 during 1906. The corresponding ...

... and disfigurement of trailing garments ! Yet, a thousand times more important arc the dislocation of our schools, and infant mortality indirectly resulting. What a farce to fight measles by closing the schoolrooms (though in itself a wise precaution) and ...

... utmost valre to enin sal. of alcoholic stump Oise of the most important matters with which it till deal will be that of infant mortality foes suffocation. Out of deaths so attnboted Ltei occur on Saturday. Dearly 170 on Monday. and then a gradully decreasing ...

... shillinugys and co wts wa imposed. A particular feature in the report was that attention was directed to III excess in the infant mortality during the past years, not due to infectious diseases but to gteneral causes. Among general causes insufficient nursing ...