... environment. Environment included housing, food, clothing, recreation and most things which went to make up our daily life. Infant mortality was playing a great part in the nation's future, and it was a disconcerting fact that the birth-rate was declining, and ...

... than the birth-rate. The actual number of births exceeded the deaths, the figures being 4,651, compared with 4,299. Infant mortality, it was good to note, was down, the rate being 61, as compared with 67 in 1917 and 88 in the ten years 1901-10. Our general ...

... Hitchin 59. BIRTH & DEATH STATISTICS. FIGURES FOR 1918 I r l\T HITCHIN RURAL DISTRICT. MORTALITY FROM INFLUENZA EPIDEMICS. In; a. report on tho health and vital statistic*. of the Hitchin rural district during, 118, Dr. 111acfadyen gave the following ...