... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... wo* the mun industry the rural population had actually declined. There were more infants burn in town than in country in proportion to the population, but infant mortality in town* wo* so much hiffhor than in country that the town excess of births failed ...

... during September, 21 were infants under one year, and diarrhoea was the predominant cause. Your district was not the only one visited with high infant mortality, as I find that the death rat* in general and the infant mortality and diarrhoea ...

... npared wig fa w wll remainder of the rural dist ct The he: Port ° Winsford gives the birtu-rate a! and t Geath-rate 107 Infant mortality during was the worster re the bustory of the di Very ne iy ne-fifth 1 the chilaren bora in! nec p district e hn tried ...

... oondHion the county. The report •7> the death rata shows fractional increase y y to with 1386, *nd th?r® also diiyV***oo the infant mortality, largely due tooeual fatalitiee from meat fee and the whole eamtatoon has made pojrwi during Ihle year, eepeoially in ...

... calcalating the infant mortality is to | take the namber of births doring e given p‘rias. and the proportion of deatbs uonder one yoar to these birthe per thousand. For exampie, sapposiog there | were 100 birtbe and 20 deaths ander one year, the infant mortality ...