... classifying the ages at which death occurred, deaths were Infants under one year of age. giving the rate of infant mortality as 6315 per thousand births. This was a low rate of infant mortality. Of the rest. 10 deaths were of children ...

... Barnstaple, read an instructive paper on Infant Mortality and its Prevention. The causes of infant mortality put down to the employment married women, maternal ignorance, general principles of the Tearing of infants, defective housing, ...

... is evidence of the amount of sickness occurring children this age. One death occurred amongst the illegitimate infants. The infant mortality for the rural population of -England and Wales for 1909 was per 1.000. Unly two deaths occurred from zymotic disease ...

... INQUEST AT NORTHTAWTON. TEE CORONER ON INFANT MORTALITY. Mr. 1). J. Pridnain held au inlneit. at Northtawtou yeeterday relative to the death of the illegitimate child of Ellen Warden, a in.rvaut iu the employ of Mr. 1.. W. Day, a•ratel water manufacturer ...

... lowest birth-rate recorded 16.9 per 1,000 of the population: 103 deaths were registered, 13 of them being infants under one year of ing an infant mortality of 100 per 1,000 births. The housing accommodation of the district had improved of late years, and t ...

... will the Government resign We hope so, but fear not. Nearly 30,000 infants under one year age died in the first quarter tbir year. The Registrar-General tells us that the infantile mortality averages 126 per 1,000 in the United Kingdom. In the 76 great towns ...

... occurred, 18 of which took place iv the Union Wotkhouse. The deaths from phthisis have decreased *>y nearly 50 per cent. The infant mortality was considerably higher. The number of births registered was 67, being birth-rate 20.4 per 1,000 per -annum. The bake-houses ...

... was 14.5. The average deatli-r«tc for the past five years was 11.75. There had been only one death nuclei one year, the infant mortality being per 1,000 births, which was very satisfactory. There been death from phthisis and one from cancer. There had been ...

... rate 18.8 per 1,000 of their aggregate population. Starch Poisoning has been sail on good authority be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should given to a child till it has a full mouth teeth, unless such food has been previously malted ...

... 190, and giving a birth-rate of 18.30 per 1,000 of the population. The number of deaths under one year was 13, giving infant mortality of 68.42. The zymotic deathrate was nil. The death-rate the smallest recorded, the nearest being 13 in 1896, and eminently ...

... 34 infant deaths registered. This is equivalent to an infant mortality rate 111 per 1,000 births. The rate for the previous ten years was 100.2 per 1,000 births, and that of England and Wales for 1904 was 110 per 1,000 births. The infant ...

... directions as to the proper feeding of babies. Mr. Duncan added that if parents generally would follow the advice given infant mortality would be considerably reduced. ...