... of children under five years of age, and 825 were of infants less: than twelve months old. Measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered, Lhe rate of infantile mortality was 184 per thousand last quarter, against 146 per thousand ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY AND ITS CAUSES The Mortality of Infants and Children under Five Years and its Reduction formed the subject of a paper read by Mrs. Florence J. Greenwood, sanitary inspector of Sheffield, at the Conference of Municipal Representatives ...

... PRESERVING INFANT LIFE IN HUDDERSFIELD. The Huddersfield scheme against infant morality was started last October, when two lady health visitors were appointed, and the plan of paying one shilling for every birth notified to the medical officer within ...

... Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, and Southport have been organized. INFANTILE MORTALITY : MANCHESTER'S UNENVIABLI IPOSITION. Dr. J. M. Rnpopzs, of Manchester, contributed a paper on Infantile Mortality. In this he stated that of 927,062 children born in the year 1500 ...

... et thousand, as compared with an average of ts‘]- in the past five years. The infantile morality was equal to minety-four infants dying Under. twelve months of age out of each thousand born during the month. Seventeen Yases of infectious diseases were ...

... the former district. The mortality from this class of diseases is much greater in St. George’s, and the appalling death-rate among infants (195 per 1,000 births) tells its own story. In Withington, where the infantile mortality is 111, a by no means reassuring ...

... G FIGURES. According to the annual report of Salford’s medical officer of health (Dr. Tattersall) the rate of infantile mortality for the past year shows a distiget decrease on that for the previous year, the respective figures being 148, and 193 per ...

... connection with the National Conference on infantile mortality held in London this week. Dr. Reid, medical officer of health for Staffordshire, said that endless proof was available of the injury to infant life from this cause, and he thought that the efficient ...

... ENsURING PURE MlLk.—The Mzrchester and. Salford Sanitary Association in its annuai report deals with the “high ‘infantile ‘mortality in both Manchester and Salford. In this conmection it is pointed out how dangercus a means of disease milk may become. A ...

... comments. In the first paragraph he states that the adult death-rate had decreased, but there had been no decrease in infantile mortality; presuming, I take it, that this is chiefly attributed to the quality of milk which is offered by the various milk dealers ...

... relatives or friends ;if .the Guardians allowed them a few shillings per week towards their maintenance. OUT-RELIEF AND THE MORTALITY OF INFANTS.- TO THE EDITOR OF THE MANCHESTER CITY NEWS, Sir,—The City News of last Baturday contains two paragraphs which, though ...

... Volunteer Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. Dr. Rhodes_and Miss Zanetti, who is the Chorlton Board of Guardians’ inspector under the Infant Life Protection Act, have been invited to attend the South-Eastern and Meropolitan Poor Law conference which will be held ...