... compares very favourably with 1903, which was so high as 136.8, when, during the summer of that year, there was a heavy mortality amongst infants from diarrhoea. The infantile death rate per 1,000 births for the whole of England and Wales equalled 128, tnt in ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY. On the above subject the Medical Officer of Health reported as follows: In the course of last month I received a letter from the Local Government Board requesting to be furnished with a report on the serious infantile mortality which ...

... milk depotts, and the giving of instruction in hygiene. No one doubted that there was an unnecessary and increasing mortality among infants, and if only for reasons of patriotism it behoved us to take steps to remi we the ignorance which prevailed, and to ...

... causes of this satisfactory result, No doubt, climatic condittoes very materially contribute to a greater or leas mortality among these infants, end during the past year there prevailed cold weatner 'luring the late summer sud the autumnal months, being the ...

... were 32 deaths of infants under year old, giving an infantile moonlit) or proportion of infantile deaths to births of 169 per 1,0151. the infantile mortality in 1895 was 140'5 ltel6 „ 131'4 ler; „ 1271 „ ioro The infantile Mortality:ls high this yei; ...

... ; death-rate, WO. Deaths under 1 year, 5; infantile mortality-rate, 3121. Statistical Mein. —There are no public institutions in the district. Tao of the deaths under 1 year were of newly-born infants, whose bodies were found by the police. and possibly ...

... address on Infantile Mortality. She pointed out the necessity of every woman having instructions in the needs of the nursing -mother, and urged the realisation of the fact that the vast majority of the I: Wits) annual deaths of infants might be prevented ...

... were of persons who had attained 6o years and upwards including 5 over go years and one under 90. A large proportion of the mortality was due to pulmonary complaints, including three deaths from phthisis, and with regard to the latter disease I may remark ...

... season on June let last. EALING WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION• THE CHILDREN OF ENGLAND. Some ominous facts concerning the increased ' mortality among young children were cited by Miss Barker at last Wednesday's meeting of the Ealing Women's Association, over which ...

... birth.. In London, this mortality was 166, and in the 0)i-iv-three target towns, 178 per thousand of births. 1 hope in future years to see this rate considerably reduced in our midst. No doubt many of the deaths of young infants are due to injudicious ...

... Estimated population, 800. Bit tb, 18; lisrtb-tate, 22-6. Deaths, 22 Deetb.rate, 28.7. Deaths under 1 year. 7: Infantile mortality rate, 388-8. Statietics.—No deaths occurred from the scheduled notified infectious diseases for the fifth consecutive year ...

... the incidence of which falls specially severely on infants and young children, and in a locality like this, which is not a factory or laundry one, provides a large proportion of our Infantile mortality. I would impress upon the mothers of the poorer children ...