... causes of the high rate of infant mortality in Redditoh and district should be reckoned. I think, the excessive use of soothing syrups. These may not necessarily be given in over doses, but mothers do not realise that while an infant sleeps so many hours ...

... that of infant m•rtality, which reaches • death•rate of 142 calculated on the total birth.. On this subject Dr. Hill writes :— In my report for 1899 loaned attention, as, indeed, I have often previously dose, to this terrible waste of infant life, and ...

... expenditure, seeing that the work bad been commenced, and could not be completed without it. OLDBURY INFANT= MORTALITY. Tee very high infant mortality ie Oldbury has again called for the attention of the committee, the average rata for the years 1891 to ...

... in the money, and it wee decided to canvass the town for eminence. There was no other business of public interest. • INFANT MORTALITY IN ...

... and Dr. Bostock Hill presented his annual medical report.--Counoillor Morgan, commenting on the latter, described the infant mortality at Kenilworth as appalling. No action was, however, taken. SHOCKING DOII , IITIC TKAGIDT —On Monday Oa eoroaer of Derby ...

... town of St. Helen's has made in establishing • municipal pure milk depot is said to have greatly reduced the rate of infant mortality, and it has been decided by the city of York, and by other corporations, to follow the example of a publics milk supply ...

... 17, equivalent to an annual rate of 14 . 5. The senile mortality had been three, equal to a rate of 2.5. One death had occurred from phtbisiv, sad three from diarrhoea. The infant and child mortality had been eight, giving a rate of 6.8. Two cases had been ...

... been ask. don a previous ocateinu the canoe of the high death-rete among infante in the tswn, I may take this opportunity of stating that the chief causes of infantile mortality common to every locality are briefly i—i.—lnexperience and neglect of mothers ...

... 5, giving a rto of 41. Topre had been 64, be among c .ildreu over 1 and under 5 rears, giving a r .le of s'l. The senile mortality had been 7, equal to a rate of o'6; 6 deaths were due to dies of the realms:or, organs (ezlnding Mthisis), and 4 &Ohs had ...

... slaughter of the Innocents. One of the greatest blots upon Redditch is its fear- fully high death-rate among infants. This awful waste of infant life has b• en the subject of com• ment before, not only in the press but by the County Medical Officer. Tee ...

... medical officer's attention it increase in the infantile mortality. They the number of deaths among infante to be summer than in winter, but there seemed enormous difference between the infantile 1 mortality at the present time, and he is Council, as the sanitary ...

... high, and calls fur some explanation. In looking over the deaths we find there are two in very young infante of pre=state birth, and three others in infant+ under one year, eleven in people over 60, and four others over 80. and one 78—so th.t in reality ...