... to his identity. - - INFANT MORTALITY. DEPUTATION TO MR A9QUITH. A& deputation from the Dritish MUelic. Atrocition on TuetdaY waited upon Mr Asquith to urge the necet. sity for legielation with a vlew to leskening infant mortality by prevwntinomothc r ...

... to Mr Asquith that the alleged increase of in~fant bmortaitywadadtetO theemploymliot of married womnen in factories, contends that nol constant relation has been established between the late of infant mortality in different towna and the proporon of married ...

... under 65 years, and upwards, 38. The infant mortality was - g a rate per 1000 of 140. The rate in 1898 a f b(eneral sickness had not been very ?? the death rate was above the 'iv 214C caused by the infant mortality and i ?? number of aged persons who had ...

... died at 65 and upwards. Eleven children died under one ar old, giving a rate ot infant mortality of 6077 per thonuand births, which. was the lowest rate of infant mortality he had as yet recozded. Eight deaths were due to phthislr, seven to bronchitis ...

... of lealth, in his annual eporto sta'ed that the number of births registered last year was 107, and the deaths 87. The infant mortality was decidedly high. He hoped the recent epidemic of scarlet fever had been stampe d out T'he principal zymotic disease ...

... 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 ...

... FACTORY EMPLOYMENT AND INFANT MOETALITY. Mr J. Tatham, M.A., MhD,, Lecturer on Hygiene at Owen's College, and Medical Officer of Health for Manchester, then gave evidence as to the effect of factory employment upon infant mortality, and upon the health ...

... been on the box previously, INFANT MORTALITY'AT CARDIFF. Dr Walford, the medical officar of health, presented at a meeting of the Cardlif Health Committee yester. day, a report respectiag alleged excessive infant mortality during the three monthe ending ...

... isto:b'coongratu- [f.lated. : .' : ~ '''i STAnCH POISONIN has been sald,.on good authority, to Lte be the main cause of Infant, mortality, No farlnaceaus :food should be given to a c;ild till It 'has a full miouth' on ' teeth, unles.. such food has -been ...

... diseases caused only one death, that of an infant under one year of age from diarrhcea. The zymotic rate for the quarter was 0,53 per 1000 living, Seven children died under one year of age, giving a rate of infant mortality of 170 73 per 1000 births. This was ...

... persons-one au infant of nine months, and three persons aged respectively 73, 73, and 82. The area of the district was 978 acres tho population, iCO ; birth rate, 244, the births during the year numbering 66; death rate, 15 4, the deaths I ?? 41; infant mortality ...

... was equivalent to a i zymotic rate of 053 per 1000. Five children had died under one year of. age, giving a rate of infant - mortality of 9259 per 1000 births. This rate was in t excess of that for the first quarter of 1898 (68 95), but r below that of ...