... AND INFANT MORTALITY. Dr. Richards, the medical officer of health for Croydon, has just made the discovery that 80 small cottages in Wilford-road are occupied by no fewer than 784 persons, and that the death-rate is 43.54 per 1,000. The mortality among ...

... 14{ hast year, and 21 the year previous. Of the 219 total deaths, 125 were cuildren under five years of age, giving an infant mortality of 57 per cent, against P£r cent last year. During the live weeks 277 births had been registered, giving an annual birth-rate ...

... figure, give annual death-rate 19* per thousand of population, against 22* last year, and 22J the-, yeaxprevious. The infant mortality .. 47J jper cent of the total death., against 55i and 62 for the two previous years. During the three week. 171 births ...

... of 2 per 1,000. This is a high rate for Poulton. There were 9 deaths of infants under one year of age,, i.e. an infant mortality of 132.3 per 1,000 registered births. Of the 9 infant deaths, no less than five were of prematurely born children, who succumbed ...

... population since the last census. IKI MORTALITT. With regard to the infant mortality (that is, the number under years of ace), who die compared to the total number of deaths, find that 611 infants died under year of age, 140 over 1 but under 2, 48 over 2 years ...

... the high rate of in• fant mortality, and the Clerk added that that was a subject of general importance. The feeding of children was closely easociated with the cause. lira Barker stated that the average rate of infant mortality in the district fur the past ...

... cleanliness, and hygiene severally. It is hoped by this means to check the meessive infant mortality prevalent in the city. We bass a high rate of infant mortality at Workington. ALL New &nuts in Boys' Fancy snits, Norfolk., eta, fancy collar., sailor ...

... death-rate of the Urban Districts in the Ormskirk Division. Last month it stood at 6.2, and of this three-quarters was due to infant mortality. Two of the three deaths of children were attributable to preventible disease, and though in these particular cases, ...

... Goriser of Lagos, of the result of a commission of inquiry into the great infant mortality of Lagos, held in that colony during the present year. The causes of this mortality were plainly indicated in the report, e.g.. overcrowding, excessive beat , ...

... O. Reid, medical officer of health for Staffordshire, diseased infant mortality and the employment married women in factories. He Raid that the con tinned high rate of infant mortality was largely doe to the ignorance mothers regarding the essentials ...

... exposure to cold and wet, and Improper nursing. Much might be done to lessen the infant mortality if the mothers could be in , truced how to feed and manage their infants, and, more important still, if the parents would recognise the peat advantages of ...

... and 36 females- living • birth-rate,3f . 19.18. Officer's report, statements were made from .. • . . time to to the infant& mortality be compared with 99 birt s and a ease of 26.19 for August. and 90 b•rthp, and • rate of 24.29 for the ing high in the ...