... (including five rnT ouse) was 104, giving a death rate of U.b. The infant mortality was 19 against average rate 72, the Devon rural rate for 1900 being 76. The rate of infant mortality was remarkably low. The sanitary condition of the villages had been ...

... Conference held at the Mansion House, London, last week, under the anep'cas of the National Association for the P eventirn Infant Mortality and for the Welfare of Infancy. ...

... right side. The net death rate stationary. rate of infant mortality, or ■other words, the rate of deaths under 1 year ot age. per 1,000 births for the year 1914, was Abb. The average infant mortality for the past three years was only 60.7. The reports ...

... 1910 1911 19121913 1914 12 14 18 25 13 22 20 19 17 INFANT MORTALITY. The infant mortality rate for the whole district is 62 69 per 1.000 births. The rate for England and Wales is 105-0. The infant mortality ...

... hail died the Unioa Workhouse, thus giving total seventeen, and a death rate of per thousand. One death an infant occurred, giving an infant mortality figure of 46 per thousand births registered, compared with one hundred and eighteen, published record for ...

... those babies alive, but if the infant mortality were 50 per cent, instead of per cent., there would be 80 or 90 more ohildreu alive for whom the pain and peril of child-birth had not been borne in vain. If the pre-natal mortality could be reduced from 15 to ...

... rate (164), and infant mortality 72 (93 49 and oin England and Wales). The death rate among births of legitimate children was 5G*O, and among 26 illegitimate children 230 0 ; that was to say the borough shewed this year infant mortality four times greater ...

... 262 j 65Jyears and over, 142 or 57 4 ; total, 248. INFANT MORTALITY. During the year only 18 deaths were registered in the district in children under 1 year of age. This is equal to an infant mortality of 48 78 per 1,000 births, and is by far the lowest ...

... satlofaotory, for whilst last year there wae a net loss of 13 the population, this year there was gain of nice, for the infant mortality had also faiiea from six to frur. Sir Leato, the Sanitary ICEpsotor, presented lenetby report dealing with water aad ...

... (against 10 3); nett deaths belonging to tbe district 121 (against 98>, with a rate of (against 10 9). With regard to infant mortality the nett deaths for the year numbered 16. No action had been taken with regard to any scheme for motherhood and child ...

... were due to influenza and 18 to pneumonia, against 1913, when 17 deaths were due to influenza and 17 pneumonia. r The infant mortality was very 10w—23.3 per 1000 births, compared witli 97 for England and Wales. 14 illegitimate children were born. The number ...

... »»__ fant mortality death rate the progress is by no means so satisfactory. That there is a distinct, although not great, diminution in the deaths amongst infants must be acknowledged, though it must be confessed that an infant mortality of HB'7 per ...