... year was partly attributable to decreased mortality among infants which in turn was dae to the cool and damp autumn, * the only consolation for this depressing climatic condition.” € 3 F The infantile mortality rate, 114.2, was the lowest ever recorded ...

... be directed. INFANTILE MORTALITY. The terrible mortality that still occun among the infants of this country is truly alarming. While the general death-rate for England and Wales is about 15 per 1,000, the death-rate of infants under twelve months old ...

... The highest rates of mortality certainly oceu. in those occupations where the excessive con sumption of alcohol is usual. Thus pot-boys, publicans, cabmen, ’bus-drivers, and costern:ongers have all a very high rate of mortality. Many other ~ocerpations ...

... butter fat should be marked in large letters * unfit for the food of infants.” No. 6.— ‘That in view of the many misstatements which have been published in connection with infantile mortality ia its relation to the milk supply, this Conference is of opinion ...

... 15'9 ; deathrate, 1899, 197 ; zymotic death-rate, 6'7 ; birti-rate, 1898, 42 6 ; birth rate, 1899, 388 ; infant death-rate, 1898, 179'7 ; infant death-rate, 1899, 206'9. The number of deaths resorded was 103, showing an increace of 22 on the previous ...

... manafacturing towns has been revived at Wakefield, where attention has heen drawn by the Medical Olicer to the large infantile mortality, which he attributes in grea® neasure to the fact that so many of the mother’s work in m l!'s and factories. This cone! sion ...

... this way, but it may p;aibly be safe to assame that the spirit of controversy does not enter into the question of infantile mortality, which was represented to the Prime Minister by a deputation from the executive committee of the National Conferenca on this ...

... 12 females. Of the 24 deaths 33 per cent. were infants and 33 per eent. were of aged people of a mean age of 76. Only one death had occarred from an infectious disease, viz., typhoid. The rate of mortality was very low, being 9°19 per 1,000. The births ...

... in excess of the average, owing chiefly to the Epidemic of Diphtheria in the Somarcotes district. The Infoctious Disease Mortality however has been low, as both of the chief epidemic diseases, Searlet Fever and Diphtheria, were of a mild 1 b yfi’, rezaris ...

... A, DEATHS IN LONDON. The mortality tables for London show that during the year 1900 there were 3671 deaths which were shown to be due to other than natural causes. It is a melancholy list, headed as usual by cases of infants suffocated in bed, which numbered ...

... on joining, twice if necessary. But the law of 1874,which only directly affected infants and school children, made a great and striking difference in the small-pox mortality of the army. Previously there were a few deaths, one or two, almost every year ...

... district he heard excellent accounts of Nurse Jacock's work. The high rate of mortality among children was due to ignorance, but if they had efficient nurses he believed this mortality would go down. Although they had a grand water supply, which cost abont ...