... 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 ...

... that the infant mortality in three towns was a good deal higher than the average for the whole country A special committee appointed to inquire into the question would he understood, soon meet. In Norwich, where the rate of infant mortality was very high ...

... the fact is that in normal conditions there is a very heavy infant mortality. Only the other day the Mayor of Stockport drew attention in his speech after clection to the heavy infant mortality of Stockport, which during the year 1900 was equivalent to ...

... authorities in • orphanages, and similar only sterilised milk to be duction in infant mortality and physicians and nygicuiets that if generally ueed sterilizA . • reduce infant iu . 50 per cent., most . summer months. The advs , .:e; . • • the milk gains ...

... all ages, anal with imos:rating Ignore. The report then • amenable refram to deaths, stating regress Ma, rate of infant mortality keeps herb it. die' net. end would hail wth the &dealt of leen/anon making it an offense for • amber to sleep with an ...

... eroszes to the registerzas the ~ r eturns show. The death-rate remains practicaßvunchanged, at 18•3 per thousand. :But infant mortality eontirules to mount up, being twelve per cent higker than in the previotte tenwear-. This is, perhaps, net surprising ...

... chief zymotic diseases the mortality has been at the rate of 1.3 per 1000 per annum, for which the deaths from scarlet fever, enterio fever, diphtheria, diarrheea, and whoop- Ing cough are responsible. = The rate of infant mortality was equal to 13.04 per ...

... reached its highest rate, of mortality, which, considering the nature of the disease, is perhaps the moat disquieting feature of the report. If there is more serious feature it is the continued increase in infant mortality. The lowest general death-rate ...

... seven chief zymotic disesges the mortality has been at ihe rate of 1.1 per 1000 per annum, for which /the desthe from typhcid fever, memlbranecus croup, diauhoea, and whooping cough are responsible. The rate of infant mortality was at iberate of 16.4 per cent ...

... it recorded an appalling infant mortality. The infant mortality was 203 to every thousand births, whereas in the 67 large towns it was only 166. When they considered this terrible death-rate, this appalling infantile mortality with the fact ...

... decreased the mortality among iufauts However considered for whole of Wales for every county not— Why did infant mortality rate rise iu oue year or fall in but is tbe infant mortality rate always iu certain districts The iufant ...

... children deal sad. Many a time had he seen little children lying untended in their cote, and in those daye the percentage of infant mortality stood high indeed. It reminded one of Dickens' description of the poor of London. Those poor children came into the ...