... in earh of the 15 Lan • raeir• rmos was the rate of infant Mortality laiit quart.ir higher than in Lindos. It is specially not-worthy that whereaii. Ppealung generally, the rate of infant mortality last quarter in our lomat towns showed a distinct decline ...

... decrease the mortality among infants. How- ever, the question to be considered for the whole of England and Wales and for every county is not — why did the infant mortality rate rise in one year or fall in another year, but why is the infant ...

... gives the 'mortality (from all causes) under one year. the so celled infant mortality, which is always looked on as an important index to the healthiness and 'Lottery condition of a locality, as follows under one year, 148; rate of infant ...

... the mortality I among infants. However, the question to be considered for the whole of England and Wales, and for every county is not—'Why ' did the infant mortality rate rise in one year or fall in another year?' but 'Why is the infant ...

... id Prewtoa. Thus t«f th** IS Lin *«hir - ♦ 'wn« the rate of infant mortality la«t ...

... hygiene and the proper feeding of infants. 2. The most significant part was that during the siege of earls, 1870-71, although owing to the scarcity of food the general mortality was nearly doubled, the infant mortality was reduced 40 per cent. The reason ...

... 13.21, and for 1900! 15.7. The infant mortality ae measured by the percentage of deaths under one year of age, to births registered, was 2.7. That very low figure counterbalanced the high figure of the infant mortality of last year, when taking the average ...

... or decrease the mortality among infants.. The infant niorltaiity rate being high in a particular yea: might be due to the incidence of sun and rain, the passing of a wave of epidemics, and such recondite causes; but the infant mortality rate ...

... bare not delayed to protest against the conclusions Dr. Bssd, medical officer of County Council, regarding of tsaaaaivu infant mortality tbs Midlands. Dr. Bald pot evil down two facte—tbe alleged drunken habita of the wall-paid operatin' in Potteries, and ...

... kingdom. This is • very different record from 1895, when there was an exoeption•lly high infant mortality throughout the country, and a yet higher infant mortality in Cheshire and the municipal boroughs of the county. There is still room for great improvement ...

... need for comprehensive and systematic efforts to reduce infant mortality. His Worship, after referring in terms of praise to Dr. Moore's address, said the chief cause of the terrible infant mortality that existed was ignorance of the laws of hygiene. They ...

... and Wales. INFANT MORTALITY. In the year under review the proportion of infants who died in Cheshire under one year of age to each 1,000-of registered births was 14 per 1,000 births less than in the whole country, and the proportion of infants who died ...