... INFANT MORTALITY, Mr. Winstone, South Walee, said he was afraid sufficient attention was not paid to the enormous slaughter of the innocents brought about by improper housing At the Chureh Congress at Middlesbrough one of the chief speakers deplored the ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. KIRKHAM COUNCIL AND MEDICAL OFFICER'S SUGGESTION. The monthly meeting of the Kirkham Urban Council was held yesterday evening in the Council• Offices Kirkham. Mr. R. Hardman presiding. A letter was read from Mr. W. Gardner asking the ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Dr. Harris, Medical Officer of Health for Islington, in his annual report, says that in the borough there is an enormous loss of infant life, which is now so much needed to replace the shocking wastage of war Practically 20 per cent ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Councillor Wilson asked the chairman of the Sanitary Committee to say something with reference to a statement which had been published in the newspapers as to the infantile mortality of Chorley occupying a very unenviable position. There ...

... THE RATE OF INFANT MORTALITY The “Lancet” publishes the following statement showing the birth and death rates and the rates of infant mortality in England and Walcjs, and in certain parts of the country during 1915. The figures, which are provisional ...

... KIRKHAM'S ASTOUNDING INFANT MORTALITY. The sex distribution of the persons dying in 1913 shows that the deaths were of 12,751 male s and 12,111 females, and that, as in 1912 and in several previous years, those of the former predominated to the extent ...

... deaths registered in 1912 included 82,94 Z, of infants under one year of age, 250,385 of persons aged between one year and 65 years, and '153,654 of persons aged 65 and upwards. The rate of mortality among infants under one year of age to 1.000 registered ...

... HEALTHY ST. ANNES. LOW RATE OF INFANT MORTALITY St. Annes-on-the-Sea has fully maintained its reputation for healthiness. acoording to the annual report of the Medioal Officer of Health, Dr. F. Booth. The birth-rate for 1913 was 11.6, an increase of 1 ...

... put forward by Dr. John Robertson, medical officer of Birmingham. He pointed out that infant mortality was a class mortality. In Birmingham, for instance, the mortality in the central areas was considerably greater than double what it was in the suburbs ...

... attained recent previous yours diarrhoeul mortality. | this rat© was exceeded 51st and week* of 1897. when the mortality was and 272 per 1.000 of the average weekly births. It was also exceeded in 1899. when mortalities 256. 255, 257 per 1.000 births occurred ...

... excessive infant mortality. A heavy infant mortality implies heavier death, rate up to the age of five And right up to adult life. The districts suffering from a heavy child mortality have higher rates than the districts where the ...

... the age of twelve months, giving an infant mortality of 126 per 1,000. The prolonged period of hot weather and the extended drought which was experienced last year is entirely responsible for the high infant mortality figure for the year. Great difficulty ...