... male infant mortality accounts for numerical superiority of females, lt also suggests the thought that at this particular age, when little boys die, and little girls live, children are entirely aider female care. But the slight excess of male infant mortality ...

... showed an increase of 20 over 1898 figures, and tbe increase whs principally among the persons of 65 and upwards. The infant mortality was 100 against 93 2 in 1898, and the death rate for tbe year was 17 per thousand, against 1257 in the year preceding ...

... place in this way would make Herod the Great hide bis diminished head as a person of mild insignificance in relation to infant mortality. We assert that cancer, leprosy, and otber vile diseases are daily inflicted or. virtuous families unto tbe third and ...

... and the proportion of fatal cases was also higher in 1898 than in 1897. The past year though apparently conducive to infant mortality, was not unfavourable to longevity, for the deaths of perdoot* °TJ* 65 years of age were only 126 against 18U iv 1897 ...

... rate of 1415, as against Ms? ;„ ii^' deafch numbea of ?? io 401 T„ WUen the death rate was 147 in 1898^ and l^ES* * Infant mortality has be«n ?? « n .? 97- -town and country, in^L 3_?ss n ' gh hoth ia hitherto recorded by th^ou^ I ?) ?? Epidemic d arrhcea ...

... unfavourable for infants The ?flcioVr t8 - °' ch,ldre, « u der ooh year Whs hi B her io .e»y than in any previous year recorded. This applies tu.t only to the county of Essex, but to England and vvales. The excessive infant mortality is marked in both ...

... gives a corrected death-rate of 1233, the net result being very close to that of last year, which was 12 26. The rate of infant mortality shows decided improvement over that of last year, being 942. aa compared with 106 06 in 1897. The causes of the 54 ...

... are 85 per 1.000, but lower than Yarmouth, 180 per 1,000. In many towns the infant mortality is over 200 per 1000 births. In the West Ham district of Essex the deaths of infants under one year were the rate of 153 per 1,000 birth*. If the experiei.ee of ...

... Leyton and other semi-suburban districts, but there were three deaths in Colcheater. Colchester had an except onallv low infant mortality during the quarter, ▼ix., per 1,000 births. The average for the country was 14'» per 1,000. The remit of the Clacton ...

... (Councillor T. J. D. Crampborn) presiding Thr Mrdicai. Officrb's Kepobt. —lt was reported that since May there had been no infant mortality, though there had been seven deaths at ages ranging from 60 to 90 years. The rate was 13 09 per thousand Loyalty. —The ...

... proportionate mortality from diphtheria during the quarter ending March 31, There were many as 54 deaths, and these mn-t added one from smail-p0x,98 from meaalea. 21 from ecarlet fever. fr»m whooping cough, ami from xymotica The infant mortality was •’klao ...

... account for many deaths. Infant mortality is very high. This is on account of children in the humbler ranks of life being neglected by their parents, and from the parents' ignorance with regard to the nature and bringing up of infants. The sanitary condition ...