... the committee's report. Satisfaction was expressed at the low death-rate and the decrease in the mortality. A notable decrease was in the infant mortality. In regard to zymotic diseases the committee expressed their satisfaction in seeing that ionly one ...

... proposed fire brigade va adjourned. Mortality.-The annual mortality weturna sub- pitted -by Dr. Fraser, medical officer of health, Alpwed that during 1899 the death-rate per 1000 of the population was 19.8, the deaths of infants beeing at the rate of 105 per ...

... was 3009, the general death-rate being l§9.7 per 1000 persons living, and throughout England and Wales 18.3 per 1000. Of infants under one year of age there were 600 deaths, being in- the proportion of 139 per 1000 registered births. The death-rate among ...

... museuam in connection with thi chair of botany at Liverpool University- College, at a cost of £12,000, has been accepted. The mortality in Bombay has reached an exceed- mgly high figure, jumping en Friday from 282 to 3t0 (the normal rate is 75). Plague accounts ...