... MR BURNS AND INFANT MORTALITY Mr. John Burns, presiding at the English?hng Conference on Infant Mortality at estminster, to-day, said the source of our strength lay in a noble motherbood. Having concentrated on the child, they should mot Jose sight of ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY, During the year there died 193 infants under one vear of age, against 149 during the previous year, which gives an infant mortality of 103 deaths per 1,000 births. This is considerably above the previous year, but below that of 1911 ...

... corresponds to an infam mortality of 81 deaths per 1.(& birthe, against 123 for the previous year. This is the lowest irdantile death-rate that has ever been recorded in the boroagh. Fast Ward ...

... marriages, and only 87 houses had been built Where had all the people gone? Then there was the infant mortality. In‘l’.«t. North and Central Wards the infant mortality was enormous, and unless the- improved or abolished same of the abominable alleys, streets ...

... fever (1), nq:hmm (4), influenza (2), phthisis (6), bronchitis (3), gnnnonn ), cance- (6), organic heart disease (6), and infant mortality (1). In the lest-mentioned case there is a big drop below the average, which for the previous five years was six. HOUSING ...

... lowest recorded in the distriot sinoe 1909, and which compares favourably with 13.7, the rate for England and Wales. The infant mortality rate was 102.94 per 1,000 births, which is higher than that of the preceding b[vear, and ought, Dr. Denming says, to ...

... 'INFANT DEATH-RATE. SKIRCOAT & POORER WARDS Striking Comparisons. An interesting report has been prepared by Dr. Jas, T. Neech, the Medical Officer O'.Bo.lll{) for Halifax, on the causes of the higher infant mor tality in Akroydon, North, Central, West ...

... interesting, and | later Dr. Neech, the borough medical officer, read a paper on infantile mortality. Dr. Neech on Infantile Mortality In his paper gn * Infant mortality in relation to its causes,” Dr. Neech, the Borough Medical Officer of Health, critiesed ...

... death-rate (11.4 against 14.1 in 1911) is well below the average; the rate of infant mortality (51.2 per 1,000 registered births) is the smallest cver attained ; whilst the zymotic mortality (deaths from chief e idemie diseases) s ml. The total of infc-ct.iomo ...

... eight in 1905), diseases of the heart 9 (contrasted with three in 19038, seven in 1907. nine in 1906, and _six in 1905) infant mortality eight. The last-named is below the average number (8.3) for the previous ten vears. As to zymotic discase, one death ...

... read a paper on infant mortality in relation to its causes. In baby week of 1917 there were 26 notification of births, and out of that number two deaths have tuken plice. Of that number ane notification was of twins, and both infants are doing weil. A ...

... but we had also the lowest infant mortality on record. (Applause.) IHe was one who began the agitation about infant mortality seven fears ago. Since that time we had got down the rate from 140 per thousand—which meant one infant in seven was ...