... INFANT MORTALITY AND ITS PREVENTION. A conference orgauised Dr. J. C. Thresh, county medical officer health, was held on Wednesday at the Nurses' Home*Leytonstone,to discuss tiie causes, etc., of the excessive infantile mortality in the south-western ...

... HOW INFANT MORTALITY IS INCREASED. DEATH THROUGH IMPROPER FEEDING. Mr. Harrison, coroner, held an inquest at the King's Head Inn, Hadstock, on Wednesday, touching the death of an infant named Alice Swan, aged two months, daughter of Harry Swan, labourer ...

... Stabch Poisokihg has been said on good authority be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should given to a child till has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously malted, liorlick'.- Milk is cow' 6 fresh milk combined ...

... singularly useful boot for young married women. The information contains, were it generally known, would far reduce the infant mortality of which w» hear much. The author of the work is scix of Mr. R. Vincent, solicitor, of ...

... FOREST GATE. Infant Mortality.—On Monday an inquest was held on Kate Rayner, aged three weeks, the child of a carpenter, living at Forest-road, Forest Gate. —Dr. Paterson, of Earlbam-grove, Forest Gate, said death was due to suffocation from want of air ...

... TRADE NOTES. INFANT MORTALITY. Public attention lias been directed none too to the alarming mortality children under twelve mouths through the United Kingdom. .20,0aJ children die every year in England and Wales under twelve mouth# age. One oi the chief ...

... Messrs. Barclay and Co. was accepted.—The Medical Officer, in his annual report, stated that the total mortality was per 1.000, while the infant mortality was low.—lt was decided to apply to the L.G.B. for au Older vesting in tho Council the powers conferred ...

... showed that the death rate for 1905 was 8.3 and the birth rate 19 per 1,000. There had been a marked decrease in the infant mortality during the year, the death rate being per 1,000 births registered, against an average 95 since the year 1900. The total ...

... scarlet fever, diphtheria, influenza, and measles. Kitty deaths occurred in children under one year of age. This gives an infant mortality of 120 per 1,000 horn. The zymotic death rate is 6, as compared with 2 0 for England and Wales. This is due chiefly to ...

... Michael whose fee-is said be 420,000. INFANT MORTALITY. Sir Henry Campbell-Banner man made a striking speech yesterday afternoon at Downing-street in reply to a deputation from the National Conference on Infant Mortality. He agreed that the evil was appalling— ...

... England and Wales 18 2. urban and rural mortality, comes out with 11*1 and East Ham 12~C. Iniantiie mortality (deaths under the of one year) in Essex figured at 102 per 1,000 of the population. Infant mortality at Southend was CO per 1,000, which compares ...

... The birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated population was equal to 307, the death rate being equal to 161. The rate of infant mortality measured the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered was equal to 1051 per 1,000. Among persona aged ...