... it was 312 years. The 6gures relating to infantile mortality are not pleasant reading, there having been during tho year no fewer than 470 deaths of children under one year of age. The infant mortality was 167 6 par 1,000 births registered. This rate was ...

... of houses upon land. On Weldneaday Dr. Edward E. Klein spoke on The Etiology of Typoid. Fever, Dr. George Reid on Infant Mortality and Female Labour iu Relation to Factory Legislation, Dr. H. R. Jones on The Pro- tection of the Health of Female ...

... Derbyshire death-rate stands at 17.5 as against 19.2, the deaths from filth diseases at 2.4 as against 2.47, and the infant mortality at 149 to every 1,000 births as against 169. The number of smallpox cases in Derbyshire which came to the knowledge of ...

... rate which on the whole he regards as satisfactory, is noteworthy for the remarks it contains on the old question of infant mortality. The death rate in Derbyshire under this head is higher than tbat for the whole of England and Wales ; in Chester- field ...

... 000, and the death-rate 16-42 per 1,000. There were 220 deaths under five years, and 197 over 65, showing that while infant mortality ais high, a large number of old people have been taken away. There were 57 deaths from zymotic diseases-scarlatina 4 ...

... England and WVales. But, says Dr. BAIwVISE, the figure which comes out of i the comparison worst is that representing the I infant mortality in the urban districts. In three I districts-Glossop, Chesterfield, and Ilkeston- D more than 20 per cent. of the children ...

... week .ast year, 20.70. The annual i ale nf mortality for Derby during the year 1836 wi. l-V-> per 1. ?? 0 ; 1897. 11-6. Rtasch Poisoning has keen said on good authority to be the nitin cause oi infant mortality. No farina- ceous food sbonld be given to ...

... bringing plainly under the notice of the parchaser Lhe fact chat he is buying skim milk. Medical evidence goes to show that infant mortality is largely attributable to the fact that children are fed only on skim milk, which in itself is not sufficient to provide ...

... de___ths were due to what may be termed unavoidable erases, and not in any sense due to defective sani- tation. The rat? of infant mortality was 88.7 per I.OCO. and was si.mewhat higher than in the two previous years, but lower than in 1895. The births repiesentel ...

... Brockwell about cricket. Some excellent hints on the management of babies should be widely read. It is not only in Derby that infant mortality is high. During 1892 the baby death-rate in England was nearly 24 per cent. of the total number of deaths; in Scotland ...

... Bracketed with Portsmouth our ~death rate was P .18-2, there being only three towns with ''lower rates Si 'In regaird to infant 'mortality' Derby stood fourth 'oni the list, and -in deaths fromn iynotic 'diseases sixth, so The average death rate was'. U6'6 ...

... births (luring September, the d'S death rate being 15 per 1,000, Measlds wefre epidemic ?? in the town; lie reported the infant mortality to be au very heavy, viz, 116-9 per 1,000,-The Town Clerk 1bC read a petition signed by 228 Cherub, folk of the town ...