... INFANT MORTALITY AND CONSUMPTION. INSTRUCTIVE DISCUSSION AT WIGTON COUNCIL MEETING. At Tuesday's meeting of the Wigton Rural District Council, the Chairman (Mr. W. Williamson) commented upon the Medical Officer's annual report, which was a very satisfactory ...

... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhoea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the contamination ...

... THE CAUSE OF INFANT MORTALITY. The infant mortality, that was, the deaths of infants under one year of age to each thousand births registered, was considerably higher than the previous year, being 162 . 63, against 70 O. The ...

... ILLEGITIMACY AND INFANT MORTALITY. ...

... percentage of infant mortality in the borough. During the three years in which special work against infant mortality has been in progress 6,740 births have been regietered, and 792 died under one year of age, giving the total infant ...

... at the House of Commons from. public_kealth authorities on the questicn of infant mortality Mr. Burns, replying after the Prime Minister, said that on the subject of infants' food the deputation would hear with pleasure that the Local Government Board ...

... former country, mortality, which in 1880 averaged only 17 per 1,000 Inhabitants, in 1906 had fallen to 14. Infant mortality shrank from 112 to 82 per 1.000. In Norway the rate showed a reduction from 16 to 13 per 1,000, and that of infants from 95 to 69 ...

... chief /hal statistics for 1908. showing the annual per 1,000 of population : Death-rata 141 ZYmotio deatirrate •.. . Infant mortality rat* (per 1,100 births) 121 Smallpoz Nil Scarlet Favor 015 Dished& sad membranous croup . . 0.15 Fever (ostorio ...

... habit of leaving their babies in the care of young children, and the result is that Acton has a higher average rate of infant mortality than any town in the county. The proposal is one of the provisions of the Acton Improvement, which came before a Select ...

... proportion of a fraction over 11. per 1,000, this being 3.4 below the mean rate in the ten preceding third quarters. Infant mortality during the quarter was equal to 102 per I,ooo—no less than 8.4 below the average of the ten preceding corresponding ouarters ...

... depot was feeding 80 children daily, and by the end of the year there were 120 children on the books. The effect on the infant mortality and diarrhas rate has been marked. Remain to the scheme which has been recently announced for raising en Imperial Volunteer ...

... marriage was the decline in the birth of children and the carelessness with which they were treated. If it were not for infant mortality our race would be strong to maintain the position to which God had mercifully called us—that of raising up new dominions ...