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INF ANTILE MORT A LIT Y

... INF ANTILE MORT LIT Y 28 deaths of infants under 1 year have been Jcord-ed, giving death rale of 63.8. mortality children. 36 deaths children under five years, show which again must be puj nul summer wc have re cCntly experienced. WATER SUPPLY Dining ...

Published: Friday 05 April 1912
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TOPICS OF THE DAY

... nations the earth. Medical experts prove that wet summer means a low infantile mortality. Nor does in excess of sunshine, plus dust and microbes, merely affect the health infants, but also of adults. Indeed, statistics reveal that during summers made up largely ...

Published: Friday 26 August 1910
Newspaper: Luton Times and Advertiser
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 330 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WINSLOW

... early white marble slab in the floor of the north aisle of Winslow Church reads as follows (in Latin) ;— ‘“ Richard Croft an infant of 14 monthe while the festival of All Saints was celebrating increased their number in 1691.” ~ ““ Here Richard Pocock await ...

COUNTY H E.A LT H. ICENWOOD

... vital statistics are satisfactory, or the mortality and sickness rates compare favourably with those of England and Wales, diphtheria being the exception. As in the rest of the country, the rate of infantile mortality Inm ereasvd owing to the increase in the ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1919
Newspaper: Beds and Herts Pictorial
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1860 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MEDICAL OFFICER'S KEPOHT

... disease:— Council School (Infants). Jan. 24th to Feb. I6th: whooping* rough: Council School (Infants)— Nov. to Nov 901 h; chicken pox; Council School (Infants)— Dec. 6th to Dec. 20th: chicken pox; Church of England (Infant*)— Jan. ?sth Feh. 19th whooping ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1918
Newspaper: Biggleswade Chronicle
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 753 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TODDINGTON

... Mrs. bommerton, with Miss Dimmock, are teachers the large rooms, with the standards, and Wear. Infant mistraee, and Micse Odell are in charge of the Infants. Under the auspices of the Social Committee of the Wesley Guild a concert was given in the Schoolroom ...

ZYIllarIC DISEASES

... be prevent the 'inroad of infectious diseases. as well es reducing the mortality. LNFANTILE MORTALITY. The deattis of infanta ureter one year of numbered 9. This gives a mortality of 52.6 per th..unand births. lhis is the lowest death-este era registered ...

Published: Thursday 27 April 1911
Newspaper: Luton Reporter
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1292 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NATIONAL BABY WEEK. MOTHERS' GARDEN PARTY

... thirty years ago in consequence of the declining birth rate and the high infantile mortality, The doctors discussed the matter and agreed that many of the deaths among infants were due to the ignorance of ‘the mothers. A movement was therefore started at ...

Diphtheria Crusade. New Methods for Luton. A new method of attacking the problem of diphtheria is being ..

... pa'event wastage of infant life from neglect and bad methods of feeding, but it is also incumbent upon us to see that lives axe not lost through diphtheria infection, he adds. Since the introduction of anti toxin treatment, the mortality from diphtheria in ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1915
Newspaper: Luton Times and Advertiser
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 639 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

mothers waited outside the To il for the privilege of showing off theii only wish we could reproduce an impn

... Week which lias been dedicated the United Kingdom to the Preami '’are I mam i,ife. A duel - ' made lo al>oii( a iii* in the mortality ol human life v. an.i better condition:* of health iot.ne children That there for imi»ro\eroent from both these view evident ...

THE BBWEKAOE

... giving death-rate of 11.2 per thousand, against 8.7 per thousand in 1910. Kightven deaths were infants under year of age, which gave inafntile mortality 12.8 per thousand, against 8.0 per thousand last year. The zymotic deathrate was 1.4 per thousand ...