... sbout. h, mg and running about. Certainly germs of o1 any kind had a fair chance, if they liked, to make P an attack Infant mortality mway well be high 83 when we as the evils they are subjected to, even IN in a well-r~ld tshooL through the waat of S ...

... of age disease easily afflicted them, and the result wasappalling. The system of baby farming was the chief cause of infant mortality, the children being deprived practically of the natural sources of nourishment. He thought that there should be separate ...

... irocecds: The infant mortality (48) is stilt very high in cortain portions oF your district, 11 in excess of lest year; 2S in tic Kirkbsm, 14 in the Fleetwvood, eight in the lBlackpool, and one in Lythmam sab-regtmtrationc districts. The infent mortality is highest ...

... -with 81-2 per 1,000, then Ince-in- s MakerfialA 80-6, Whitworth 2672, Leigh 25-7, c Aspull 2G-6, Walton-le-Dale 25667. Infant b mortality under one year of age was in the pro. rT portion of 167 deaths to 1,000 births registered. It In the county urban districts ...

... and this is thoe t mainstay of mnanly yaoing children, especirlly those of parents living in towns,. NAo wonder that infant mortality is hlighl. The attention. of' the .Local Government Beoard f is to be called to the matter. anid they are to bo n aked ...

... but this was somewhat tempered Bets, eby the enormous mortality amongst the chil- qit 10 dren. In country places, anad towns mainly disgm inhabited by the industrial classes, the infant w mortality was far above the average, and in some vd tttowns tl ...

... satisfactory, was h~hrthan last year. The rota from phthisis exceeded the rtofthe county, end the same may be said of the infant 1 mortality, which was unusually highi. Only 10 eases of In- I featious disease were notified, vie, seven from typhoid, one v from ...

... provement in the infant mortality, the percentage of deaths under one year, to the total number, being 23'25, against an average of 32-87 for the past ten years. Preston no longer occupies the highest position in the Registrar General's mortality tables. Among ...

... -t, stood by him. (Cheers,) They had it on b e the authority of Dr. Norman Ker, who ti ls had given them statistics of infant mortality al g showng that of e0,000 children under a ry five yesre who had died, the deaths of 69,000 w ere el en either directly ...

... the low rate of mortality which, prior to the past month, has now for some time prevailed within the borough. During the five weeks ending September 17tb, the deaths registered from all causes have num- bered 325, and the rate of mortality has there- fore ...

... and debility, ti6 deathl give were recorded, many of which were those of infant, uost the duration of whose lives did not exceed a few dany or even hours. It is this heavy mortality during ths very early stages of infantile life that so greatly ii. lbe ...

... death of tan infant aged 22 months has been ascribed to diphthoria, in Fishwick Ward. In spite of the trying nature of the weather with its sudden variation and periods of intense cold, there has so far been no marled increase in .the mortality caused by ...