... death-rate 17*88. The illegitimate birthrate was per cent of births, and the illegitimate death-rate I*o7 per cent births. Infant mortality was again above ...

... the scavengers.—Councillors Read and Hain commented on the high infant mortality, the latter remarking that outside the very young children their death-rate was low. The infant mortality was very great, and some steps should be taken to prevent It. The ...

... their comfort is created, it would something towards the solution of the problem of infant mortality. If granny were there mind the baby and watch the cbildren the rates infant in«urance would become I lower, the family able rent another room, and the coroner ...

... Countuy District. The portion, as in some previous years, baa the highest general mortality of the district. It has also toe bigaest infant mortality, estimated on the assumed population, la both the position is due to the large proportion deaths from ...

... be brought up, as they are in China, without milk all. This absurd proposition was met promptly by so dire account of infant mortality in the land of tbe Celestials that it is obvious our only remedy is the reform of our dairy system. Those who concern ...

... beard a great about Infant mortality but he thought unless casea where one child was put out to nurse were registered equally with those of more than one there would very little done to atop the mischief of baby farming that part of the world. tiie Government ...

... put to sleep, when they should wake up. and Row much milk they should consume; and lias probablv done more to prevent infant mortality in tlie town than all the doctors and nurses put together. His advice mothers has always been common sense, and evidently ...

... of one case, had boen previoa*ly brought to your notice. Half the deaths for the month were infants under eight months, an I considering the high infant mortality existing la the district, and the fact that the greater proportion of children ora fed with ...

... St,Keverno. 7 0 lo . 18 St. Martin . 112 10 Total oost, 3d ; nett! decrease, Os ; number relieved* 272. Th* Infant Mortality in the Workhouse. The Governor reported that five persona had been admitted into the Workhouse dur Ing the past fortnight ...

... mad*'* it was found that the infant had eaten pie«-.» cabbage, which had perforated the iutes. tines and *o caused death. Raked flour h;.s been found to common diet for infants a* well biscuits arid bread. not pronerly that infants thrive verv well rule on ...

... te children born in England every year, of whom 37 per 1,000 die. This proportion is 20 per cent, in exoeas ordinary infant mortality. Many owe their deaths neglect which is. not criminal-being due to the lack of means on the part the mother, and other ...

... Rev. B. Zfespard, the association secretary, spoke strongly on life in the slums of Bristol; stating that the rate of infant mortality in some of them was oven in the oontenrration camps of Sonth Africa, 'about which we read and heard so mneh. Parents ...