... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhcea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the contamination ...

... STARTLING INFANT MORTALITY AT GRIMSBY. Set Pearls, 7 Rubles. &c. ...

... TEMPERATURE AND THE . DEATH-RATE, INFANT MORTALITY, Compared with whiar we had peevousy exporienced, lasi week was ealilid obe descnbed #s cool, for the mean tmum at the lfi Otwervatory, Greenwich, ~ was lower that of the preceding seven weeks. But we ...

... 000 ; infant mortality, 59-4 per 1,000 births. According to the returns of the Registrar General, the rates for the whole of England and Wales for 1898 are as follows :—Birth-rate, 29'4 per 1,000 living ; death-rate, 176 per 1,000 living ; infant mortality ...

... brought about in some oases by injandicious feeding it is no good; but there have not been any cases of diarrhosa in infants. The infant mortality of the whole districk comes out 10614, which is a very good average, and is due to the mildness and dryness of ...

... less mortality and a greater birth-rate than last year. INFANT MORTALITY.—The infant mortality is this year 91.9 per 1,000 registered births, which is very %od, the average of the whole country being 140, or thereabouts, only 31 deaths of ...

... 'INFANT DEATH-RATE. SKIRCOAT & POORER WARDS Striking Comparisons. An interesting report has been prepared by Dr. Jas, T. Neech, the Medical Officer O'.Bo.lll{) for Halifax, on the causes of the higher infant mor tality in Akroydon, North, Central, West ...

... birth-rate 233 per 1,000 of the population. The deaths number 55 making the death-rate 139 per 1,000 population. The infant mortality : 86.9 per 1,000 births. Comparing the death.rate for the last three years we have :—For 1897, 18.4; 1898, 14:7; 1899 ...

... eight in 1905), diseases of the heart 9 (contrasted with three in 19038, seven in 1907. nine in 1906, and _six in 1905) infant mortality eight. The last-named is below the average number (8.3) for the previous ten vears. As to zymotic discase, one death ...

... to this district, gives us 54 death&—lgj per 1,000 population. There were six deaths under 1 year of age, making the infant mortality 68.9 per 1,000 births registered. I am, Gentlemen, ¥ Yours obediently. ~ RorT. McLaAY, M.D. M.O.H. Horncastle Urban District ...

... the workhouse, eaving out that of an infant aged-14 days, the average age was T 4 years. Seven deaths were registered under one year, which is equal to an infant mortality of 106.1 per 1,000 births. The infant mortality for the last five ...

... arranging improvewents in the system of irrigation ; (3) 'l'nat the portion of the Medicsl Officer’s report relating to the infant mortality, the absence of infectious disease, and the general condition of the district, was most satistactory ; (4) That the Clerk ...