... that the amedical Olicar for Walilsend saii in his report that the infant mortality wa3 due chiefly to improper feediric'. 'oe card att diarrhoea, like many other dij-eaae to %which infants ara liable, might have its ?? l.eredroors tranemissioc, to mothers ...

... than one *instance. No child had died under one year of age, a circumstance which had not happened before. The rate of infant mortality was nothing, -as comnpared with a rate of' 58382 per 1000 births. Ten persons died aged 65 and upwvards, their united ...

... 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 ...

... dieath-rate had been 18-18, and the birth-rate 35'49. For the year 1891 the death-rate was 16 86, and the birth-rate 36b59. Infant mortality had been high, nearly 3192 per cent, being children under one year Of age. ...

... Alderman Dr. Bligh remarked that he had no doubt much of the infant mortality in the city was due to the presence of bacilli in milk, which was now so largely used as a food for infants. As cowkeepers and rate- payers in the city of Liverpool, we ...

... were typhoid fever, man of which seventeen cases occurred, and Soul diphtheria, which was responsible for forty- el one. Infant mortality, which during the hanc summer months and up to the end of perh September was very prevalent, has shown i .tendeney to ...

... rate for the past -year ; at the same time the mortality is much higher than it should be, and the diffioulties in the way of obviating so great an expenditure of life aro almost isnsrmountable. Infant mortality still stands at a high figure, and must, says ...

... check. A comparison with previous; years showed that the general death-rate, the zyrmotic death-rate, and the rate of infant mortality were ?? siderably below the average. '[he Clork (Mr. Tbompscn} read the report of the Infectiops DiseasesI Hospital Committee ...

... which the medical officer and his staff carried out the work 3- of inspechton in Liverpool. She referred to the rate of infant mortality, and ex-pressed a hope ] ?? the work of the association would produce sr osme beneficial effect in that direction. Having ...

... fourth quar- ter of 1898, the rate in Oxford sub-district being rather less than that in St. Clement. In the 67 towns the infant mortality last quarter averaged 153, and in the whole country it was 145 per 1,000 births. The 93 deaths last quarter in Oxford ...

... nursing and feed- ing of infants, is mentioned as the cause of many infant deaths.- Much danger arises from want of Cleanliness of the child's envirorent, &o,, affecting, as it does,-not infrequentlyf the whoesomeness of the infant food to such an extent ...

... and upwards. The infant mortality is highest in the Rirhham and lowest in the Lytham sub-registra- tion district. she infant mortality, as registered by the proportion of deaths under one year, to registered births, is 112-8. The mortality ...