... 'luring the lest eight years, and shows a small decrease in the infant mortality compared with the previous year, the rate per 1,000 births being 95. In 1904 and 1906 the infant mortality was high. In both these years high temperature and deficiency in ...

... 1906 and .48 on 1905. Its infant mortality rate has varied thus : 1905, 103 ; 1906, 131 ; 1907, 101. Greenford 10 general mortality (11 . 4) is better than itself (14.1) in 1906, but 2 . 4 worse than in 1905. In infant mortality its 45 rate ...

... Middlesex, Recording to Dr. Young. It has, be Baja, a deathrate of 19.9 —well in excess of most districts. Dealing with infant mortality, he advocates the employment of female inspectors to visit the homes, give instructions in feeding and rearing, and promote ...

... especially must we take into cunsideration the zymotie death rate and Infantile mortality. The most sweetiebeton feature of the vital atatist!mi is the Infant and ehUsi mortality. Half the total recorded deaths of persons dying within the distilet were of ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY Infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths amongst children under one year of age to the registered births, shows unfortunately • very considerably increase, having risen from 101.7 per thousand in 1903 to 129.8 last year ...

... as a result the death rates in the slums and crowded districts were very much higher than in other parts, and also the infant mortality. He pointed out the impossibility under these conditions of health, decency and proper home In., and incidentally remarked ...

... the prevailing epidemic of eummer diarrhoea. Thus the infant mortality for that month exactly equalled the total number of deaths recorded for the whole of August this year. Of the deaths of infants under 1 year for last August. (viz. 23), 9 were attributed ...

... Deaths, the rate was much reduced. This statement might at first eight tend to the impreerion that efforts to control infant mortality are largely beyond our reach, hut a consideration of the matter should lead to the hope that this is not really so. and ...

... rural districts. INFANT MORTALITY. The infant mortalityliae,lh;ifirr, the number of deaths of children under 1 )ear of age, in proportion to every 1000 births during the year, is not only an aocurate test of the mortality of infants, but is ...

... poorer classes wiU tell you stories beaeng out this. and all such doctors will wrlcomeDr Hope's words. Lord Robert Cecil's Infant Mortality Bill, now before the House of Commons. provides for the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of the birth of ...

... fear of poverty were terrible evils. If children were allowed he been they bad • right to all the fulness of life. Yet infant mortality wee scandalous. There could be no moral sanction for the present competitive system. The existence of slums a sufficient ...

... year, and 9 persons died over 6o years including over 8o years. In explanation of the exceedingly high and regrettable infant mortality I have to state that it was almost entirely due to attacks of summer diarrhoea, which disorder assumed quite an epidemic ...