... 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 ...

... steam trawler collided with a sailing vessel, which broke in two, 11 men being drowned. LOW INFANT MORTALITY. In the 77 great towns, including London, the infant death-rate has declined from 145 in 1902 and 160 in 1904 to 115 in 1910. In the 136 smaller ...

... twelve months, not because they were barn unhealthy. but because they were being killed cE, when they ought to live. Where infant mortality high, there was a low vitality in those who remained. He strongly advocated the adoption of the Notification of Births ...

... has furnished par_ ticulars for 1909, showing the county boroughs in which the Act is in operation together with the infant mortality rates in 1905 and 1909. The following finmos are of int-rest to this district, the first return having reference to 1905 ...

... one year old • therefore, :the infant mortality reached 28 per 1,000 births. or .44 per 1,000 of the population per annum. This is by far the lowest death-rate of infants on record in the district. The infant mortality for England and Wales ...

... and «aie« iver thousand Che population was 14.3 oonipared with 14.7 1908, lowest deatn-tat* previously recorded. The infant mortality was 109 (ter I nous and birtlp.. as with 108. Statistics given illustrate om sorvanee vaocmarion laws Lngtano and for ...

... AR H ‘. [TO THE EDITOR or THE LANCASHIRE DAILY POST.I —lt is high time that vigorous steps were taken to stop the high infant mortality that prevails. For this it is essential that the doctor should be called in soon as the child bogins to be ill. &ley ...

... were registered (41 males and 38 females), giving an annual rate of ; 9.8 the lowest fot over ten years. The rate of 1 infant mortality under one year to 1.000 births was 109, last year it was 79 (the lowest recorded), in 1908 it was 202, and in 190'7 18 ...

... where Mousing Acts are not enforced, where the Food and Drugs Acts i letter, where no steps are taken deal with high infant mortality, whore rivers pollu daily, where no isolation have bee provided, and where the recent Small Holdings Act is inoperative ...

... population, was the lowest record, being below rate for 1909 and 2.59 lessthan the average for the preceding decade. The infant mortality, corresponding to a rate of 117 per 1,000 births, was slightly in oxooea of exceptionally low rate (115) of previous ...

... night, on public health in England and Wales last year, states that infant mortality was 30 per cent, lower in 1910 than in 1901, and it is satisfactory to find that a saving of infant life is being secured on a large scale, and that the general evidence ...

... and haven of peace. (Applause.) CHILD Attention was now being directed m most civilised countries to the reduction of infant mortality, to the care of the children, of medical’inspection, to physical training, the instruction of girls m cookery, laundry ...