... whatever they may which kill 120,000 infants in England every year maim and injure many more which survive. As Sir Jono Simon (then the Chief Medical Officer of the Privy Council) said manv years ago, high infant mortality necessarily note* a prevalence of ...

... assured the Council that fatbad been seriously mentioned commiltes and the doctor bad remarked that apart fro;, this high infant mortality the death rate a Luton would be exceedingly low. went on t. say that all thia year there had been exaggerate refmrts ...

... the early stage were treated sanatoria, a rapid cure might expected. Turning to the subject of infant mortality, the report states that 12C deaths of infants under one year were registered, equal a rate of 6 deaths per 1.000 births, as compared with an ...

... 1 to diphtheria and croup, 8 to whooping cough, and Ito diarrhoea. This is equal to an annual zymotic mortality of I*2 per 1000. The infant mortality was at the rate of 141 2deatbs per births. Ours manufacturing town,” says the Medical Officer, where ...

... were *l* un ter one year, equal given bans and_ oranges, and a very Baccessfnl ana out tin (produced) which banded t© au infant mortality It*sdeaths j-er 1000 enmyable evening was sjjent. the witness took it hoim-and subsequently gave hs two infectious ca ...

... mauer. and it is hoftoi that sorb a remarkable mortality will not occur from such a ranse in future. Ihc gravity of the situation is shown by the fact that dunng the whole last year the number of deaths infants due to epidemic dlarrh-na was sixteen. and now ...

... in the urban. the matter of infantile mortality, however, the urban districts compared unfavourably with the rural, showing rate of 107 9 per tkonsaod births, as comprrea with 78'0. The highest infantile mortality (125 per thousand bulbs'*, was in the ...

... particular moment to Lqlon. where infantile mortality is unfortunatelj heavy, owing ip .some degree circumstances connected with the local industry but more p-.rtico'arly the injudicious feeding to which infants are often the ru tuna. At inquest at Battersea ...

... for the heating and ventilation at the new Dun,-table road school*. Hi* tender wa* £766, with a further sum of £240 for the Infant School (these sum* not including excavating, builders’ or carpenters* work). Messrs. Aehwell and Nesbitt, Leicester, also ...

... deaths infants under one year, equal 133.6 deaths per 1,000 births per annum —Commenting upon the re port at the Council meeting. Alderman Huckleeby referred with pleasure the freedom (from infectious disease, and touching upon the infantile mortality, remarked ...

... though small incrca?e: satisfactory because while all tho remaining juvenile courts in Luton district bad been free from mortality, they themselvcis had had the unusual experience of two deaths year. Sickness claims accounted for (is. . and the total funds ...

... mothers in the best means of bringing up children. and. passing on to the question fantile mortality, claimed that it had ly to do with tin* insurance infants. The Society had 200 inspectors, but they *till wanted 100 more. The Bedford Branch sent rather ...