... LANCASHIRE LIFE. SANITATION AND INFANTS' DEATHS. There are few surer teats the relatively sanitary condition a population tbap the rate of infant mortality, remarks the Lancet.’’ It is seriously significant, therefore, that this rate shows marked excess ...

... deaths and death-rate 16.27 for February of last year. There were IS deaths among children under one year old, giving infant mortality of 136.84 per thousand births, compared with 222.22 for January, and 72.46 for February of last year. The symotic death-rate ...

... BLACKBURN'S DEATH-RATE, THE REV. W. A. BIMCOX ON INFANT MORTALITY. The high death-rate for which Blackburn is at present noted is iraly deplorable, and it is, therefore, not surprising to find it the subject of discussion and suggestion in the pulpit ...

... the need for municipal infants’ milk depots. Our high infantile mortality is unaffected by all the advances of sanitation. Since 1875 the gcneraldeathrate has gone down from 22.7 to little over IS per 1,000, but our infant mortality is high now as it was ...

... physician at the North Eastern Hospital for children, in a paper read on Saturday evening “at Carpenters' Hall, E.C. . . The “infant mortality in this country “ was disgracefully high. . . . That, “ said the doctor, was mainly due improper and unwholesome “ food ...

... of youth and maturity, there can be no doubt that the present rate of infant mortality is, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman said, truly appalling. One hundred and twenty thousand infants in the United Kingdom died last year. To the cynical criticism that it ...

... physician the North Eastern Hospital ibr children, in M a paper read on Saturday evening at Carpenters’ Hall, E.C. . . The infant mortality in thin country was disgracefully high. . . . That, said the doctor, was mainly doe to improper and unwholesome ...

... FEEDING-BOTTLE DANGER. There was discussion by the Town Council meeting yeoterday of the causes of infant mortality. In September 34 of the 50 deaths in the town were those of children under five years of age, and 19 were caused diarrhoea. It was stated ...

... figure* was the comparatively high birth-rate, which waa. however, accompanied more than compensating increase in the infant mortality. Out of 49 deaths 19 had o'cui red in children under one year old, and nine had been due to diarrheeal diseases. The ...

... summoned for the offence, but he did not appear in oonrt. ACCRINGTON’S INFANT MORTALITY. —The Accrington Ladies' Council last night passed a resolution the effect that the high infant mortality in the borough waa due the industrial conditions under which the ...

... deaths and a rate of 11.61 for April of last year. Ten death** had occurred of children under on© year old, giving an infant mortality per 1,000 births 106.69, compared with 53.33 for the corresponding month of last year. Zymotic diseases had caused 10 ...

... held to associated with the high rate of infant mortality in Lancashire, and no doubt was in some degree responsible for it. But it was difficult to agree that the whole even most of the excess mortality of infante in the county was due to this on© cause ...