... INFANT MORTALITY. KIRKHAM COUNCIL AND MEDICAL OFFICER'S SUGGESTION. The monthly meeting of the Kirkham Urban Council was held yesterday evening in the Council• Offices Kirkham. Mr. R. Hardman presiding. A letter was read from Mr. W. Gardner asking the ...

... KIRKHAM'S ASTOUNDING INFANT MORTALITY. The sex distribution of the persons dying in 1913 shows that the deaths were of 12,751 male s and 12,111 females, and that, as in 1912 and in several previous years, those of the former predominated to the extent ...

... HEALTHY ST. ANNES. LOW RATE OF INFANT MORTALITY St. Annes-on-the-Sea has fully maintained its reputation for healthiness. acoording to the annual report of the Medioal Officer of Health, Dr. F. Booth. The birth-rate for 1913 was 11.6, an increase of 1 ...

... put forward by Dr. John Robertson, medical officer of Birmingham. He pointed out that infant mortality was a class mortality. In Birmingham, for instance, the mortality in the central areas was considerably greater than double what it was in the suburbs ...

... Kerr said that his colleague Dr. Thomas had noticed that the children born during those years when from any cause the infant mortality was high tended to be poorly developed and to be of small stature. As in the case of wines, there were good years and ...

... total infant deaths 996, or 20.5 per cent., occurred during the first week of life, and 625 children succumbed at ages between two and four weeks, making a total death roll under the age of four weeks of 1,621, or 33.4 per cent. of the total infant mortality ...

... reduce infant mortality, New York Yesterday opened an educational crusade, - which will last a week. It is promoted (says the Daily Telegraph ) by philanthropists, and supported by churches of all denominations. While literature regarding infant hygiene ...

... zymotic death-rate, and the infant mortality. The latter fact is particularly gratifying, in view of the hot and dry summer, which, Nihibt admirable from a holiday maker's standpoint, s is not an unmixed blessing for the infant population. Considering that ...

... families. Commenting upon infant mortality the report says: It is of interest to note that if mortality from diarrlicea,—naturally low on account of the cool and wet summer—is excluded from the compa.rison. the infant mortality of 1912 ...

... 6 per 1,000. The number of deaths of infants under one year was 148, giving an infant mortality rate of 127.1 per 1,000. During the year 1913 there was an increase of 27 deaths over the figure for 1912. The infant death-rate for 1912, which was the loweit ...

... parentage is growing, and I am more . than suspicious that the cases of premature birth to which reference is made under infant mortality, arc often due to other than natural causes. whilst cases of criminal abortion, as is well known, are common enough, ...

... 000 against an average of 11.1 in the districts with a low birth rate (mainly seaside residential places), while the infant mortality was respectively 152 and 80 per 1,000 births. The number of illegitimate children born was 1,196, equal to a percentage ...