... INFANT MORTALITY. Lord Robert Cecil, presiding at a meeting in London, that of 120.000 infants that died ©no year England was not too much to say that somo could bavo been saved by proper measures being taken for their welfare. One of tho chief causes ...

... AVOIDABLE INFANT MORTALITY. Every year about 120,000 infants die in this country alone, and there can doubt that an enormous proportion of this might b© avoided. Poverty and overcrowding, with all their attendant evils, account for the greater part of ...

... of Mr Havelosk Wilson’s creditors had accepted the debtor’s offer of 10s £, INFANT MORTALITY. Depctation the Premier. The Premier, receiving deputation to-day on infant mortality, admitted that the statistics were appalling. Mothers and children were entitled ...

... were infants' death* registered. This was equivalent to infant mortality rate of 111 per 1,000 births. The rate for the previous ten years wa-100.2 per 1,000 births, and that England Wales for 1901 was 119 per 1,000 hirthe. The infant ...

... There had beon males and 1(1 females. The birth-rate was per 1,000 living ; the death-rate, 9*04 ; death rate, ; and Infant mortality, 57*47 per 1,000 births. Those statistics showed that the past year had been a most extraordinary one. The birth rate ...

... people at home —were weakened and demoralised and decimated by tho evils of drunkenness, depopulation, bad housing, infant mortality, and ignorance. Unquestionably this the enemy; but Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman dees not seem to realise that the most ...

... statistical and sanitary points of view—show that the health of the borough during the past year has been satisfactory. The infant mortality (deaths under one year of age) figures give rate of 82 per 1,000, that for the whole country being 128. Dr. Page, commenting ...

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... rate per 1,000 living 23*0, 1907 ; 22*4, 1906 ; death rate 13*2,1907 ; 12*7, 1906 ; zymotic rate, OS, 1907 ; o*3, 1906; infant mortality per 1,000 births, 70*0, 1907 ; 77*5, 1906. It was resolved to draw Dr. Adams’ attention to the observation regarding ...

... only two deaths ro! '- zymotic causes, giving a zymotic rate of o's *.WX). Infant mortality was 137 per 1,000 lu there were 129 births and 56 deaths, 1 * j the infant mortality being 147-2. The general ~f the town was improving.—The treasurer Ported ...

... was 53*14 per 1.000. compared with 36 for 1889. There was a rate 18*14 per 1,000. m compared with 14 85 in 1889. The infant mortality per 1,000 births was 86*2, and the zymotic death rate per 1,000 population, 00*57. Thia he considered to very satisfactory ...

... between 133 and 09. Infant mortality, specially in urban and industrial districts, is largely due to bottle feeding, uncleanly apparatus, and the administration of farinaceous and other improper kinds of food. On this low infant mortality rate of in our ...