... INFANT MORTALITY. A public meeting was held in Birmingham on Friday, the Mayor to consider the excessive lnhld?w‘y m The I.m said the question of infant nnrnh'tyhadngpd attention of the Health Committee of the Birmingham Town Council, and they had called ...

... HEAT AND INFANT MORTALITY The excessive child meortaiity which is accompanying the hot and dry summer is causing anxiety, and the Local Government Board have issued a circular to the sanitary authoritis~ .f England and Wales. In this they poii: out that ...

... WHERE INFANT MORTALITY IS REMARKABLY LOW. At Letchworth (Garden City) there was not a single case of infant mortality during the past {‘ear out of a total fopulation of 5000 pe?le. iven with children of all ages, only one died during the same period. ...

... inhabitants, infant mortality had been reduced from 260 deaths under one year, out of 1,000 births, to 34, in a period of eight years, by the teaching of mothercraft and the provision of clean milk. The following are the statistics of infant mortality (deaths ...

... INFPANT MORTALITY. There has been of late a great increase of enthusiasm among local authorities in the direction of attempting to diminish infant mortality. With this object milk depots have been established, lady inspectors appointed, and various e ...

... births is much the same as in previous years, except that the Somercotes area heads the list. INFANT MORTALITY in several Wards :— Deaths Infant under mortality Births. 1 year. rate. - 30 18 104°04 33 10 30303 47 6 127°65 56 7 152:17 35 5 142'85 15 1 6666 ...

... A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. Mr. Logan dwelt on the appalling rate of infant mortality, and could not understand how this had come about after the action taken by the Council under the maternity and ¢hild weifare orders. Ma Porter declared that the need for ...

... DEFECTIVE EDUCATION Prisons and police, poor relief and unemployed, aged poor and infant mortality, Tnlor, irreligion, seething discontentwhat a crop of tares for all our sowing of expensive seed ! All traceable more or less directly to the want of e ...

... in the year under review the birth-rate increased, the death-prate decreased, and there was a decline in the rate of infant mortality on which the nation has especial reason to congratulate itself. In the ten years 1801-10 the birth-rate stood at 27.2 ...

... stated that the mortality and infectious discase statistics are very satisfactory. There had been 303 births, 151 boys, 152 girls, giving a birth-rate of 38'1. The deaths numbered 113, equal to a rate of 16°8 per thousand. The infant mortality rate per thousand ...

... died of gastric and intestinal diseases speaks for itself. There isanother factor which probably accounts for a lessened infant mortality, and that is, that families are becoming smaller, and each member can receive more care and thought. FURTHER SANITARY ...

... Margaret Alden spoke of the scourge of infant mortality, and said its most fruitful cause was improper feeding. The medical officer for the city of Nottiugham had proved by the most careful statistics that the infant death rate in his city was enormously ...