... consider and to report the conditiona of infant mortality in their districts, with suggeations to possible reform.” This was seconded and carried, and eonclndcd the bnsincs* i»art of the meeting. INFANT MORTALITY AND PHYSICAL DETERIORATION. Councillor DODD ...

... work ins’ of tba infant* milk depot* in different Kngliah towns and the result* which they hare •ecured. Bnch a work would bo be means complete without some «»n*idcration of the closely related subjects of Infant feeding and infant mortality. Several chapters ...

... supervise midwives in accordance with the provisions of the Act. and keep an eye upon those poorer districts in which infant mortality is abnormally high. Her duties will also include the inspection of factories where females are employed, and the houses ...

... * These eobjecto include all Sanitary questions, such tbs improved Housing of the Working Clames, the .diminution ef Infant Mortality, Hospital and Asylum Management, Education and Temperance. I have been much interested these matters for many yearn. ...

... epidomio death rate wan 1.59 per 1.000. Infant mortality was 149 per I.COO birtho. The comwponding rates for Wale* were: Birth rate. 25.6 per 1,000; death rate. per 1.000; epidemic death rate. 1.12 pur 1,000; infant mortality, 109 per birth**. The general death-rato ...

... death rate .6 per 1,000, and the infant mortality *.? i.OOO births. The corresponding figures for the whole England and Wafcs (Rural are as follows: Rirth rate, Zl2 per 1,000; death ntv, 15.7 per 1.000; and infant mortality. pwLOOO fiirtns. It will be aeon ...

... 16.5 1,000 ; symotic death-rate. 24 per 1.000 ; infant mortality, 163 per 1.000 births. The corresponding rate* for 1901 were birlh-rate. 25.6; death-rate. 11.4; symotio death-rate. .6; infant mortality. 85. The increase the general death-rate very largely ...

... in Warwiek, 21.8, sod in Le«m«ngton per 1.000. Among 205 deaths in Oxford there were of Infants under one year sf are and of persons aged npwards years. infant deaths were the proportion of 95 per 1.000 births registered as compared with 179 per I.OX ...

... , 15.8 per 1,000; symotio d«itb»rato, .. per 1.000; infant mortality, per 1.000. The average rat for the past two yearn were: Birth-rate. 24.9 per 1,000; death-rate. 11.2 per 1.000: infant mortality. 97 per 1.000 births. Only one case of infections disease ...

... 5. 13. L and 27.7 the same four quarters. The infant mortality fell 116 per 1.000 b.rtl.s trot 194 in the preceding quarter; while the deaths of , persona numbered 56, and showed of , The zymotic mortality, which had been 0. 7, 0.9, L 5. , and 1.5 in the ...

... STREET, and S 3, ST GILES’, OXFORD. What do Doctors mean when they say that the tremendous infant mortality is caused by improper feeding ? They moan that most infants’ foods are of a starchy nature and causo rictets and stomach troubles. They are not complete ...

... calling for treatment Oxford, Reading; Wycombe. and Buckingham. The subjects dealt with are houeing of toe working classes, infant mortality, low wages and unemployment, the employment of married women and of children. Some of these subjects will no doubt be ...