... Wales (14.3). The “infantile mortality” was 130 per 1,000 births registered, as compared with 94, the average annual rate for the year 1900-1909. The infantile mortality was unusually high last year. Of the 14 deaths infants under one year, three were caused ...

... Infantile Mortality —The Infantile mortality is measured by the proportion deaths under one year to i.ooo births, and amounted to 85, compared with 1908. 3 i »9°7. a mean of for ten years past. With a faUing birth-rate, the saving of infant life becomes ...

... upon infantile mortality, the meetings of the union, at Reddilch, last week, drew more than usual attention. The subject was, indeed, a painfully interesting one for Redditch audience, for it is but short lime ago that the infantile mortality rate at Redditch ...

... Birmingham revealed death-rate among infants of 166 in one ward and of per 1,000 the births in another ward ; while another town bad an even worse record in 300 deaths per 1.000 births. there was half the mortality among fowls animals ...

... the average rate in the ten years 1899-1908, the death-rate tost year showed decrease of 1.6 per 1.000. The rate of mortality among Infants under one year, per thousand registered births, was 109, which to eleven per thousand below the rate 1908. was lower ...

... mouth, was very satk- Of the 14 deaths to occurred at the extreme Ike five being Infants six nmntte of age, >d five old people over sixty-five years. The font mortality foe the month was very high, hot ot aro dar three deaths of babies so weakly that ...

... nt of an infants' health society. Such an organisation had been started in Worcester, the Corporation bearing half the oast and leaving the control in the hands of the society. In the first year, taking one quarter alone, infantile mortality fell by fifty ...

... were registered, the rate being equal *4 9 per t.ooo. There were no deaths.from any of the symotic diseases, only one in infants under one year of age, and one due to phthisis. Three cbm of scarlatina were notified, all of which were removed to the hospitsl ...

... from the zymotic diseases, but as Bight be expected the respiratory diseases deathrate ia somewhat above the average. Three infants Staler one year of age died, the pniport ion being 103 to x.ooo births. Five notifications of in feet SHIS diseases were ...

... per annum. Nine riraths oouMited la people over seventy years of age, aad there were four deaths. This heavy mortality amongst the aged aad infants I* above our normal rate for this month. Two deaths wav caused by tuberculosis, aad one cancer Since my fast ...

... a few hoars, and and Wale*, it some little valMacbut the army and navy were for the greater part ti . that the infantile mortality rate la with the revolutionaries, and the Jfcnarclt» much than was formerly the oise, and stlL' waa dromed. The result was ...

... x,ooo per annum. There wa» again no ...