... that the gem ral death rate has been exceptionally low, no case of disease bad coatnbutod tiso mortality. birth rate bad slightly increased, but infant mortality ha I been very high. Daring tbe year th* number ot registered was 62. giving birlh rat* of 19*4 ...

... females, against 67 the previous year. and the death rate wee 12.3 per thee:rend. Then had been a reareible diminution of infant mortality, and a abignlarly good avenge of life in the district. Allusion was also made in the report to the tables of sickness ...

... shewed that the births uniDb9re«l2sfiend the deaths 114, thehirt! ra ol«mg2s*B per 1000 and the death rate 11'4 per IttO, infant mortality per Twenty-Ove cases of zymotic disease have been notified during the year. person had been re-vacoaated. The age of ...

... registered. The infant mortality under one year was Se dea wee births. l'he numlsr of deaths over 55 le. The death rate was satisfactory, whilst the birth rate was slightly under last year, and below the average, the infantile mortality holed prat:dimly ...

... annual report it may be observed that the death rate has been low, and that the birth rate is steadily diminithiug, whilst infant mortality remains very high. During the year the number of births registered was 63, males 23, females 30, giving a birth rate ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY. Tha infantile mortality rate was 182'75; white the S 3 great towns it averaged 168-25 per 1000 births. To have a birth-rate diminishing slightly not source of anxiety, but to have a high infantile mortality rate is. 1 cannot here ...

... Seven deaths occurred from phthisis and from cancer. There were deaths of infants under one year of age, being i the rate 138 per births registered. - a very high rate infant mortality, I and per ICtt? higher than the average top : the last ten yean*. ...

... year. There were (our cares of enteric fever, none of which proved fatal. Tho mortality the district hhd been ratlrer more, namely. 178, against 158 the work nous' t K e mortality increased, being 20. ; against 17. One child born in ths died unJer month. ...

... taon. The births in the district were:—l9o2. 4&3. or 21 9 per 1000; 1«8. 425. cr 21.9 per 1000; 1904. or 21.9 per 1000. Infant mortality (i.e.. deaths under I year of age) for 1904 is low, being 23. Dnring the year deaths have been registered. Although the ...

... meeting of the Norwich and YN- Norfolk branch of the N.B.P.C.C. Special mention was made in the report to the Mgt rate of infant mortality in the city, which wait attributed to ignorance and wilful neglect. The re-played Englieh Cup-tie between Crypts! Palace ...

... lot in life. The annual report of the Medical-officerl ri iluith tor Norwich, no far as it deals al.!, tie infant mortality of the city, is infant death-rate iii appsllugly high. In the 76 great towns ilcaili•rate kr last year was 139 h•) ha is a dreadfully ...

... COREESPbNDENCIt INFANT MORTALITY : SOME SUGGESTION'S re Mr Edgar. Sir—Your remarks ender - Laud Ulnae ti t thee morning with reference to ths'esermem rate of infant mortality vow at • zunewhl s hou r , for at ao time ia the mar is the Mob of ...