... THE HEAVY INFANT MORTALITY. A Mother writes : 2 “We owe our child’s life to Plasmen. She was gradually wasting away, and the doctor said he feared nothing could save her, but from the first time of trying Plasmen she improved, and is now a little E'culre ...

... care of infant lite, said ignorance was the chief cause of discase. When he was lrpoint(d in 1901 Medical Officer of Health at a rapidly increasing borough, he found he had come into a place which in hot summers had a very high infant mortality from diarrheea ...

... of eight children under the age of 12 months would have given the statistics of infant mortality a much more rosy appearance. Dr. Harris considers the high infant mortality points to a poor state of health and physique in the mothers, apparently causing ...

... A WORD WITH MOTHERS. _‘l\:‘cenl standard of bealth, we need to , is highest where infant mortality is lowest. The different causes which have killed many babies have damaged far more, and our hospitals, infirmaries, asylums, and prisons are said to be ...

... in the future. In neither case was there any death from zymotic disease—an extremely uu‘-f.uory‘ record. The rate of infant mortality was the most regrettable feature, working out at 1671 per 1,080 in the Thetford Rural Distriet, and 103.1 per 1,880 births ...

... satisfactory to note that there was no death from zymotic disease. A most unsatisfactory feature on the contrary is the infant mortality. which is at the rate of 122 per thousand births registered. Too much stress, nevertheless, need not be laid on this ...

... the birth-rate, l:: do':‘r..m and the infant mortality rate are each the lowest on record; while the marriage raie i- lower than all previcus marriage ratee, those of 168 and 1887 excepted The annual rate of mortality for the seventy-seven great town: of ...

... preventible causcs of infant mortality. It is satisfactory to note that onty one mfant death comes under the heading of dinrrheeal diseases, which fact apparectly point to grester care and increased knowledge in the as to the feeding of infants. Notwiththis good ...

... average for the past four years being 126 ‘Ninety-nine reons were over 5. Thirty-nine caildren (LJ'udnr one year. The infant mortality js rather high. There were rather more than the average number of deaibs from diarrhora and enteritis, accounted for ...

... deuths rezistred was 205, 103 males and 102 females, being a death-rat p 126. The uverage for the past four yoors v 120 Infant mortality meacured by deatin under one year to 1,000 horn, was 91.4. The tctal number ‘of hirths registered was 339-males 290, ...

... information which would be obtained by means of the question would be of infinite value in determining the causes of infant mortality and imbecility. There was no desire 1o be inquisitorial. The Statistical Society asked that the question should be framed ...

... accarr ! in the Workhouse, over 50 per cent. of the mainder occurre din people over (5 veais « 7 - As against this the infant mortality dropp d v 69 to 64, and only one death cesurred froo 00 7 tile diarrhoea or enteritis. Owing to the ab ™ of hot weather ...