... that London. Despite this fact, the birth rate was higher and the death rate lower than the London average, while the infant mortality was below that in the Metropolis generally. Su;h figures bear eloquent testimony the conditions under which the Peabody ...

... intended to pave the way to the lessening of the evil (which threatens to become as Imperial as Defence or the Tariffs) of Infant Mortality. He believed that his mission was humanist; and his biographer (perhaps not altogether partially) sees the humanitarian ...

... of the rate of infant mortality in London, the appeal issued by the committee of the Infants' Hospital, of which the Duchess of Albany is the patron, will without doubt receive hearty sup- - ; ,.;.,,~,.A. port. The institution is an infant itself, for it ...

... means diminished racial resistance. The waste of infantile life in England and Wales is still enormous. In 1904 the mortality of infants under one year of age was equal to 145 per 1,000 births; but the diseases to which this great sacrifice was principally ...

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... get rid superfluous children, and the statistics of infant mortality would seem to bear them out. That they are wrong ie shown by a case heard at West Ham yesterday. An inquest was feeing held on infant, when the evidence showed that the bodies children ...

... population of 21,000. The average death-rate is found to 30.3 per 1,000, compared with 21.2 for the rest of the borough. The infant mortality reaohee 239.2 per 1,000 births, against 168.3 for the rest tho borough, and 150 in the large towns of England. The dwellings ...

... on the need of a pure uiill supply, notably for infants, on which Sir F. Treves spoke last night, we have received the report of the Madical Cticer of St. Pancras, which shows how greatly infant mortality has been reduced in the district under his control ...

... widely read and its lessons taken to heart. The Bishop of Ripon spoke on the subject of infant mortality. He said that other countries had managed to diminish this mortality very considerably; and it was equally possible for us to do so here. Every agency to ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY. A very serious matter in connection with the health and well-being of the rising genenation is referred to by D r . ,T. Orme Dudfield, the medical officer for Kensington, according to the Local Government lounial. In speaking of ...

... MORTALITY LONDON. The deaths registered last week in 33 great towns of England and Wales corresponded to annual rate 32.9 per 1,000 of their aggregate population, which is estimated at 10,691,530 persons the middle of 1895. In London 2,671 births and ...

... Mortality Difteeent Ages. The 147,992 deaths registered last quarter included 34,499 infanta under one year of age, 68,609 of persons aged between one year and 60 years, and 44,884 persons aged 60 years and upwards. The mortality of infants, as measured ...