... INFANT MORTALITY AT PRESTON. Dr. Pilkington medieal officer of health for Preston, l has justissued bis anmual report, which contains an as'oundis g record of infant mortality during the past 12months. OFf the 2,657 deaths recorded in Preston 10 less ...

... of mi t t**feeding',hoO at lastrne fruit. For yecks,Dr:' Higher Sleeting) with special attention to,the high tato :of infant :mortality, and tatutitKing the fart 'O4 so many rents did not pay attention, to the . proper feeding of their young children, and ...

... same cause as infant mortality, and 1 ” cause of it, it may be urged that the employu ree. day married women ia at tle root of the infant mortality rates. Obviously, both the re centage of married ard widowed wome: oo and the infant ...

... 'amid mortality Ilan been very high for many yearn, but han been mainly confined to the eastern portion of the alivtried, where it exeeedit the other of the town by nearly 441 per ot the birth.h. The local officer there say, a high infant mortality iv of ...

... The rate of infant mortality measured by the proportion of deaths of infants under one year to the total number of births is equal to 194.1 per thousand. The rate for the previous year was 177.2 per thousand. The rate of infant mortality ...

... of them cannot be held to affect the rule. There is, as Miss Coi*—r says, a connec- tion between small means and infant mortality, and between email means and the employment of women j but the latter relationship is not ao close as —x former, owing ...

... death rate for 1897 which was 112 per cent, lower than for the previous eight years. He referred also to the question of infant mortality dealt with in the report, which showed that of every 1,000 deaths 169 were children under one year,and that in 15 large ...

... regretted to say that the improvement in the infant mortality recorded was not maintained in 1597, the number of infant deaths having increased from 38 to 60, or over 50 percent.; and the infant mortality rate from to per 1,000 births ...

... neatly thirte m limes that o l.on ...

... of the society, which was largely dne the energies of the officials. He drew Hie attention of the audience to the high infant mortality in the district, and again recommended the establishment of a day nursery, as suggested by him some years ago. Tha need ...

... Officer of Health, writes that nearly half the deaths last month have occurred in children under one year, that the high infant mortality was due for the most part to gastric derangement producing diurrhasa, dos, and that there is an increase in the number ...

... Committee's action, was eventually confirmed. Starch Poiboxing has been said on good authority to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mbuth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...