... County Council. The only important thing that eslle for any special remark is the infant mortality. That Ise little black spot in our midst. It appears that the infant mortality in one year in our place. with a population of 7.000 was 31. whereas in Harrow ...

... amen were of persons wh• m. ages ranged tgyteetli sixty-five and eighty, and nine w hose ages were over eighty. The infant mortality table, i.e., deaths under ose To e, gives fifty deaths. or a rate of 156'2. thui, although an improvement upon previous ...

... Infantile Mortality. Last year the death rate amongst infants was lowest since 1900, being 89 per 1.000: this shows a steady decline since the year named, but the decline has been general throughout the country•, due largely to the cold and wet summer ...

... causing increase or decrease in infant mortality cannot be overlooked, it should by no means lead to slackening in the efforts which have been made of recent years, by the aid of health visitors, to lessen infantile mortality. The factors which play part ...

... 6; Ux• bridge rural is sixth, 14.5, and Oreenford is again in the happy position of having el,;a:esideitb We; . 4279. INFANT MORTALITY. This is always the saddest and most serious element in the consideration of vital statistics, Last year the number of ...

... detect, and without doubt a flat, rather hard bed, with low pillows, is preferable for growing children. CARE OF INFANTS.—Speaking at the Infants' Health Exhibition, Sir William Bennett said the Incorporated Institute of Hygiene began its career some four ...

... rates, and accord og to the report of the Medical Officer of Health the experiment has resulted in a marked diminution of infant mortality in hat town. This is not surprising when we consider 'he large extent to which inferior and adulterated mvk is said to ...

... which Wings It up to its present higit•tate, is the deaths among children under one year, vls., 104, which brings the infant mortality rate to •lu. The symotic death rate, which includes all cases under enteritis, diarrtult, diphtheria, scarlet fever, ...

... was hungering and thirsting because so large a part of it was without Christ. Facing the great problems of temperance, infant mortality, of deep-seated and profound ignorance in spite of all our education, she was convinced that Christ was the cure, and ...

... for the adoption of the Continental system of municipal crèches. In view of a decreasing birth-rate, the question of infant mortality assumes, to some extent, a national importance, and there can be little question that the compulsory habit amongst working ...

... annual report of the Ealing Infant Society, which is a body of ladies. whose exceedingly useful work is well worthy of emulation everywhere. The best proof of its undoubted usefulness is to be found in the infantile mortality statistics for Ealing both ...

... favourably with any -anitary authority. The infantile mortality. namely, ii 4.03 per 1.000 for the past year was. however, high., But the latter feature of the report the Council cannot control. Infant mortality is due, in very large measure, to the ignorance ...