... INFANT mORTALITY. Dr. Hewitt, in moving the adoption of the minutessof the Public Health Committee, said they had appointed a committee to consider the question or infantile mortality and to bring forward some recommendations. He hoped the work of the ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. A letter was read from the County Cosnail calling attention that the infant mortality in Bromborough was isrgethe highest in the districh—averagang as it did at the rate of 210 deaths to every thousand births yearly. ART-LANE. Plass ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Great differences in infant mortality were recorded in the districts. The proportion very large in the borough of Illatioinield (MI per 1,000), Northwich urban district (WS Fa 1,000), and the borough of Stailybridge 2 r 1 per 1,000) ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. CENSURE Oi . I MOTHER. An inquest was held yesterday, before Mr. 'Cecil Holden, touching the death of Winkelmina Gardiner, the ten.weeks-old daughter of George and Sarah Anne Gardiner, who reside at 3, Hubert-street. The mother litatethet ...

... the mortality I among infants. However, the question to be considered for the whole of England and Wales, and for every county is not—'Why ' did the infant mortality rate rise in one year or fall in another year?' but 'Why is the infant ...

... hygiene and the proper feeding of infants. 2. The most significant part was that during the siege of earls, 1870-71, although owing to the scarcity of food the general mortality was nearly doubled, the infant mortality was reduced 40 per cent. The reason ...

... 13.21, and for 1900! 15.7. The infant mortality ae measured by the percentage of deaths under one year of age, to births registered, was 2.7. That very low figure counterbalanced the high figure of the infant mortality of last year, when taking the average ...

... or decrease the mortality among infants.. The infant niorltaiity rate being high in a particular yea: might be due to the incidence of sun and rain, the passing of a wave of epidemics, and such recondite causes; but the infant mortality rate ...

... need for comprehensive and systematic efforts to reduce infant mortality. His Worship, after referring in terms of praise to Dr. Moore's address, said the chief cause of the terrible infant mortality that existed was ignorance of the laws of hygiene. They ...

... and Wales. INFANT MORTALITY. In the year under review the proportion of infants who died in Cheshire under one year of age to each 1,000-of registered births was 14 per 1,000 births less than in the whole country, and the proportion of infants who died ...

... large infant mortality return compared with some other towns• in England, notably many of the mannfactur: jug centres in Lancashire, but the figures given by the Birkenhead Medical Officer of Health in his last report show that infant mortality in Birkenhead ...

... them were only nine cases reported so far, ea 100 year, eo that they were 3.9 per 1000 this year on the right side. Infant mortality was only about a third of last year A—it was six against 21— while with regard to births, this year's total (for seven ...