... due to 6x~cs5ive in. fantile mortality-to the abnormal number of deaths in the ranks of children under one year old: hence, we may fairly conclude that the declension which has roeontly taiken place in the local mortality rate is almost entirely owing ...

... satisfactory, was h~hrthan last year. The rota from phthisis exceeded the rtofthe county, end the same may be said of the infant 1 mortality, which was unusually highi. Only 10 eases of In- I featious disease were notified, vie, seven from typhoid, one v from ...

... grave scandal, and he %would be willing to support a demand for a Government inquiry. He thought, how- ever, that our infant mortality would be materially diminished if it coak-tbe madeimperative that mother6 should not go *to work in the mill until three ...

... provement in the infant mortality, the percentage of deaths under one year, to the total number, being 23'25, against an average of 32-87 for the past ten years. Preston no longer occupies the highest position in the Registrar General's mortality tables. Among ...

... PRESTON MORTALITYT:-Aecording to the official return 41 deaths occurred in thea borough last week. - The proportion of infant mortality, though still high d does not reach quito thea usual figure. There were 17 It deaths of children under one year, and ...

... past six years, and 25 47 for v- toin years. There is no apparent improvement but thl rather the reverse in the rate of infant mortality. We is flnd that the percentage of deaths under one year to the total number for last week was 37-25 against 3284, n- ...

... the low rate of mortality which, prior to the past month, has now for some time prevailed within the borough. During the five weeks ending September 17tb, the deaths registered from all causes have num- bered 325, and the rate of mortality has there- fore ...

... deaths recorded during the past month, he said, was 226, the mortality being equal to an annual rate of 27-23 to each thousand of the population. This shows a marked increase upon the mortality for the pre- viousomonth, when the rate had fallen a little ...

... live years, have been due to this cause. The greatest -mortality from , this disease occurred during the first week, that t ending May 20th. Sixteen deaths, or more than one-third of the total mortality from all causes, . were registered under this heading ...

... and debility, ti6 deathl give were recorded, many of which were those of infant, uost the duration of whose lives did not exceed a few dany or even hours. It is this heavy mortality during ths very early stages of infantile life that so greatly ii. lbe ...

... :occurred in -young infants, 97 having beenf registered as under the age of 12 -ites,or months, while 22 exceeded that age, but were iwhere, *lesa than five 'years -old, the remaining five 1am14 'deaths representing the total mortality from this iondond ...

... death of tan infant aged 22 months has been ascribed to diphthoria, in Fishwick Ward. In spite of the trying nature of the weather with its sudden variation and periods of intense cold, there has so far been no marled increase in .the mortality caused by ...