... INFANT MORTALITY. deaths occurred among children under one year age, being equal to a death rate of 76 per 1,000 births as compared with for 1916. The rate for the whole of England and Wales for 1917 was ...

... Infant Mortality. ’ Alderman Perring drew attention to the high .and. increasing rate aof -infant mortality in the Borough as shown by the statistical statement for the five week ended December 29 last and presented to them that morning. He hoped that ...

... INFANT MORTALITY, When we know that the number of children under the age of twelve months who die annually is greater than the number of soldiers killed in the same time on the battlefield, and that the great majority of tho®e children die from lack of ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. In the Health CoMmittee's report, the Medical ,Officer stated that during the past year there had been registered 276 births (134 males) and 162 deaths (92 males). • 'The .death rate fop the district had only been 10.9 per thousand, ...

... sanitary administra. then, better medical and nursi care h and a higher of conduct thre educational meastires, to reduce ehild mortality within the next few years t ...

... Infant Mortality Fifty children under the age fir* died during the veer, increase 18 over last- year's figure. .the 282 children horn, M (13 and female*) died during the year hfe, which equal# a-n infant mortality rate against 97 for England and Wale* ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. DROP IN THE RATE In his report for the quarter ended June Dr. the Pad than) Medical Officer Health, states that the number births registered was 38, males and females, against during the previous quarter,, giving birth-rate per thousand ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. 1)1. Nlurray, Acting Medical Officer it Health for Paddington, writes nith reference to the statement of Alderman ['erring in the Mercury that infantile mortality in Paddington is at the rate of 174 per thousand births, as compared ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The infant mostality rate shows the number of deaths of children under one year of age per one thousand births. In 1917 in the borough Of Heywood it was 129. as agninst 136 in the preceding year. In England and Wales at was 97. Yen r ...

... pointed out th«t. if t.ho mortality rate babies daring the first two weeks of life continued for ten months every child born would die. The improvement in the infant mortality recent years had chiefly occurred amongst infants between one month and sis ...

... increased mortality from preventable ailments such as respiratory and diarrhoeal diseases. In this connection it is noteworthy that, while there has been an increase in the mortality at age groups between one month and one year, the death rate of infants under ...

... THE PROBLEM OF INFANT MORTALITY, the unnecessary waste of potential citizens, which was a problem the more urgent through the loss of adult life, as a consequence of the war. The question of population was one of the great questions exercising the belligerent ...