... 000; epiciemir death-rate. 1.7 per lAN; infant mortality. 101 per 1.000 births. The corresponding flaunts for England and Vales were—Birth-rate, 21.3; portal deathrate. 15.1; epidemic death-rate, 1.31; infant mortality, 11.3. Except for the higher rate of ...

... belonging to the Vale and two to the Hill. The number of infant deaths (under one year) registered in the whole district during 1902 was 39, being 22 in the Vale and 17 in the Hill. and giving infant mortality per tbousaad births registered of 146.8 in the whole ...

... were finished we were furnished with definite facts. The lecturer had heard of a Maire in France who had reduced the infant mortality in his district to zero—to use the technical term of the locality—by means of weighing all the babies born, once a month ...

... there has been • decrease in the rate of infant mortality. It is an undoubted fact that where there is much poverty infants suffer very much from careless and imperfect feeding. Medical men will tell one that the infant death-rate is enormously increased thereby ...

... birthrate has gone up slightly in the past Year and the death-rate decreased. It may Le noted with satisfaction that infant mortality under five years of age has markedly diminished; in 1891 the percentage was 31 and in 1900 only 16. From the table showing ...

... not what it ought that there is 4 large amount of preventible diseme and suffering due to sheer ignorso, and that the infant mortality in some distne-s of the large towns, combined with a birth-rate, constitutes a warning which the present generation cannot ...

... become a dead letter: in the Housing Acta, for instance, in the medical inspection of schools, and in the reduction of infant mortality. If the people were really thoroughly in earnest as to the improvement of social conditions of life in the worst parts ...

... these notwithstanding their unusually delicate health. only firs have died. perishes the infant mortality has been reduced ow asst.. and the death-rate for infante anises per has been brought below 100. The wader one year for England and W= tar the 73 ...

... death-rate wax .35 per 1,000; the infant mortality was 71 per 1,000 births. The corresponding rates for England and Wales for the same period vore,—Birthrate. 16.5; general death-rate. 14.7; epidemic death-rate. 1.29; infant mortality. 121. The general death-rate ...

... 19.5 per 1,000 living. Among the 170 deaths in Oxford there were in- cluded 50 of infants under one year of age, and 60 of persons aged upwards of 60 years. The infant deaths were in the proportion of 179 per 1,000 births registered, as against 123 in ...

... the initiative came their medical officer There is no doubt that Pr Ormerod Is fully alive to the serious neme of the infant mortality in the poorer ports 4 nvford. and ft he thinks the sanitary authority can help him in any way to bring home their re ...

... 989; the epidemic death-rates .116 par the Went mortality was 63 per birtba The earteigending figural. for England and Wales are: Dfreviate, 27.9; death-rate 16.2; epidemic deathrota 1.96; infant mortality. 146. The figures compass, very favourably with ...