... large e.\c©f*» femal© population. The infant mortality was also low, though somewhat higher than tluit of the previous year. This is perhaps th© most reliable index its sanitary condition—iu E.vmouth th© mortality has been reduced one-baht during the pa*st ...

... fighting disease either by medical or social means. The earlier conference, held in Caxton Hall, dealt with the question of infant mortality, and listened to a stimulating address by Mr. John Burns. Mr. Asquith opened the fourteenth annual meeting of the National ...

... cases reaching 100 veers. The longevity of the Romans was due to P high infant mortality. ..fhily the fit xurvived.` By'taking great cure of the young we have reduced this mortality, but at the same time we have not added to the average length Of life. ...

... undernand. for if the weakly and the delicate survive chillhoed they do not as a rule live to old age., A high rate of infant mortality means in fait • low death rat' after sixty. and vice-versa. The ancient Roman had a ,iesa chance of living to 4wenty ...

... year, aged one month, and the cause death was certified to convulsions. The infant mortality. therefore, works out at 88.4 per 1,000 births. Among the causes infant mortality are improper feeding, defective sanitation, pareiual neglect, and epidemics ...

... Umiy one infant died laat yead*. the age of one hour, the lieiiig ceit.ifitd premature birth, which gives infant mortality rate of 30.0 por 1.000 cluidrcn born, being lower than the average for Che hist ten veairs, vis., 49.2, infant ...

... Lords on Monday, there was a debate on sanitation in India, particularly pith regard to its effect on the deathrate and infant mortality, ViscountMidleton raised the Monday. question, and complained that a wrong step had been taken when the sanitary service ...

... two from measles, and two from enteric fever. The deaths infants under cue year old were four in number, giving mortality 30.78, the lowest record. The following table gives the infant mortality for the past ten jean:— 1902 25 102.04 per 1,000 ...

... its curtailment. Thera has been an enormous increase infant mortality in the large towns Germany during the heat wave, and some of the municipalities •re issuing advice mother*. Three hundred infants at alone from oornplaints the sbnormal heat. THE EXMOUTH ...

... government. MR. BURNS AND INFANTILE MORTALITY. At the Conference on Infant Mortality which was opened at Caxton Hall, Mr. Burns emphasised the importance of organised effort to overcome the handicap put upon infant life and childhood by the conditions ...

... same period the death-rate has been reduced from 23 to per 1,000. Information will also obtained from the census returns infant mortality. Another im- portant alteration and addition is the pro-. vision which figures will be given showing the number of rooms ...

... 11,98 per 1,000 1909. these were over the age of 66; 4S over “the age 70; while there were twelve infants under the age one year, giving infant mortality or 71.8 per 1.000 children born, against 58.2 iu 1909. There were deaths from cancer, one le«vs than ...