... CARK. INFANT MORTALITY.- -There have been Ia duusual number of cases of •ickuees •utoug yoeug children to this district of late, followiug doubtless from the outbreak of measles. six fetal cassabas* been recorded. thartaN.—The people of the parish bass ...

... Dr Sergeant says : Although a falling birth rate is usually accompanied by a reduced infant mortality, evidence is not wanting to show that conditions affecting infant life, both in the home and home surroundings, are touch better, than they were a few ...

... even mortality from vaccination, sre invariably doe to inherited taint roused into activity by the new protective and wholesome process to which the constitution has been impressively vuhjected ! Withal, there Is no such increase of infant mortality throughout ...

... conditions prevail too in rural places. Not the least melancholy feature in the report is Its reference to the excessive infant mortality, and Dr. SAIIUNANT appears to have no doubt but that this is due.mainly to rentovelle causes. Infections diseases known ...

... inquests, mid inquired into a large number of other case* where no inquests were held; therefore, my ex• perience of infant mortality was considerable. It was my practice in all cases savouring of neglect to inquire whether a child was insured, and 1 ...

... mother or nuts. who slept with a child under two years old was punished with imprisonment. Since the law cattle into force infant mortality has greatly decreased. St. George's parish, Wigan, is to be provide I with handsaw° and coniniodious new schools. Sir ...

... What percentage of deaths of infants under one year old is due to washing day cannot be ascertained, but that the Leav e death rate of infants is in a measure due to chills brought on by mothers having to place infants clone at band while they are washing ...

... diminution equal to 214 as compared with the county deathrata for 1991. The deaths of infants under one )ear gave Hit proportion of 130 per 1,00.1 births registered. The infant rate* were more favourable thou 1891. The seveu principal syntotic diseases, viz- ...

... all others who mar read It, for I Gan, with nruoh pleasure, s - that, with the one stile exceptio n exceptio n of the infant mortality, which has oven more prominent than usual title year the health statistics prove the borough continues to bold a foremost ...

... being 20 . 36 per cent, of the total deaths, and showing an infant mortality of 4 2 per I,ooal per annum. between the ages of one and me years there were 19 deaths, which along with the infants gives a total of 61 under five years. From live to fifteen ...

... the third column (3) gives the death-rate from the principal zymotic diseases: the fourth column (4) gives the rate of infant mortality, measured by proportion of deaths of infanta ander one year to 1,000 births. ...

... 1,000 of the population as compared with 15.54 last year, and 16.76, the mean for the previous 10 years. The rate of infant mortality, equal to 132 per 1,000 bite, was 27 lees than the average for the previous decade, and the lowest we have hitherto recorded ...