... The birth rate was 17.6 per thousand, comjnued with 22.2 in the previous year and it was tlie lowest on record. The infant mortality rate was per thousand, compared with 110 per thousand for England and Wales. During the year new houses liad been completed ...

... between the infant mortality figures, for whereas in 1889 there were 160 deaths of infants under one year for every 1,000 bom, last year the figure was 55. Colne’s birth rate, by the way, was 8.7 in 1938, the death rate 14.4, and the infant ...

... children.” A Colne Golden Wedding MR. AND MRS. ROBINSON Health and Housing COLNE MEDICAL OFFICER'S ADDRESS TELL-TALE INFANT MORTALITY ...

... his annual re I port, which was presented to Earby 1’rban District on Wednesday. Although the birth rate was low, the infant mortality rate was I much below average. Scarlet fever (was more |>revalent than usual, and in common with other districts Earby ...

... years. Fourteen deaths (seven male) gave « death rate of 14.4. compared with 6.9. and With two deaths there had been high infant mortality rate; the incidence of infectious diseases was average. Parents and Teachers. Tli© sum of £23 was raised for thej funds ...

... with 17.26. 11.02 I 15.69 for tlu* ...

... the various muicipalities in order of increasing mortality it at once became clear that the rate rose steeply hand in hand with greater poverty and greater congestion. Xohody need hesitate save infant lives on the ground that it would lead trouble later ...

... which were then considered almost phenomenal. The infant mortality rate (46 per 1,000 live births) was slightly higher than in 1944, but was well below that of any year preceding. The maternal mortality rate of 1.80 per 1,000 total births was the lowest ...

... and you ore not quite certain at what otfe baby | should given solid food. Attend your elapses, and try and reduce tbe infant mortality of your town. Set good example tlie neighbours, and lx* glad an opportunity to your little lore to leave the world a ...

... considerably higher than that the Administrative County (11.6 per thousand) and of England and Wales (10.8 per thosand). An infant mortality rate of 51 in Jtai noldsw ick compares unfavourably with the rates for the County (39) land the remainder of the country ...

... irrespective of income, jniint out that the scheme will reduce both maternal and infant mortality. Lady Rhvs Williams, in enabling mothers to have ample milk, reduced maternal mortality from deaths per 1.000 births to .‘I deaths in the area of ex^ieriment. . ...

... and Independents consider tlieir record in Government and on local Councils—bad housing conditions, malnutrition, high infant mortality, child death rate and rate and the cost of ill healt.i. Tho resounw medicine are unevenly distribute ...