... to Cardiff, a-nd 1 to Leeds. Infant mortality in England and Wales last quarter was equal to 148 per 1,M00 births registered, and slightly exceeded the average. In the thirty-three large towns the rate of infant mortality averaged 152 per 1,000, and ranged ...

... of London. Despito this fact, the birth- rate w.-as higher and the death-rate lower than the Zondon average, while tie infant mortality was 40.2 lbelow that int the MNetropolis generally. Such figures 'ear eloquent testimony to the eonditions under Which ...

... the increase being due almost entirely to an excess of deaths from whooping coogh.- Huddersfeid had the lowest rate of infant mortality of all the large towns, fand ranged from 152 in Huddersfield, 139 in Halifax. 171 in Leeds, 181 in Bradford, and 194- ...

... or over the ago of forty-five, and the tdeath-rate of infants under one yvar worked out at tSl1.1 per 1,000 white, atud 912.7 per q1.00 Oolouredt Dr. Stoney attributes the high infant mortality to the lac3 of milk, the tnatural food of very young children ...

... trenches, and the wvomen were either down colony or in the women's laager. For the first few months of the siege the rate of infant mortality and deaths among aged people were terribly high. It was a case of the survival ofthe fittest. Several thousand falsehoods ...

... 15-4, and Sutton Coldfield 12-18. while for the whole of England it was 1;8'S. The position reached in 1828 as regards infant mortality had not been maintained, and the district had relapsed-into its old and, in tji respect unsatisfactory condition. The ...

... in the mortality amongst infants, the number being fewer even than in 1897, which was one of the lowest on re- co'rd. Of the 43 deaths, 36 vwere infants under one year of age, and seven between one year and under five. The rate of infant ...

... hetpl as ones. This great sacrifice of infant life is perfectly pro- ventible; and thiat it is so is seen front wisat has taken place in Germany. There, too, overlaying added so cenormously to the infant- mortality that a law. was passed making it a penal ...

... Committee. It was, perhaps, hardly right for a Mayor to criticise his town, but he could not help thinking thatt the rate of infant mortality in Ipswich wavs little less than a Rpublic scandal. Whether it arose from insanitary dwellings or Want of proper care ...

... against 869 in 1898 ; an improve- N ment due to the decrease in the number of deaths of children under one year old. Infant mortality returns showed 157 deaths,against 172; I and he (Dr. Harris) thought that, in view of the efforts made by the health ...

... large towvns, 7 occurred2 in Infanlt mortality in Engzland arid Wales Itst quarter 'wis equal to 188 per 1,000, sad cos-vcsponded wi~h this a-erage. On1 thae thirty- three large towns rile rate rof infant mortality avernsged 2,31 per 1,000. and ranged ...

... ef0fl1iSE AId. Sugden, in moving the reception of tho report of the Sanitary Com-mittee, expressed regret at the high rate of infant mortality in the administrative oounty. The deaths under one year of age for the first quarxter of 1S00 numbered 1,54, being at ...