... INFANT MORTALITY. a m, AMONG the many subjects which have engagell Ope bthe attentioni oI the S ocial Science Congress now an ~ assmbledat Yrk,. none, perhaps, possesses a inore mw Ipainful interest than the vast mortality which in ep tsome parts of the ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. n TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. 1 GENTLEMEN,-In your leading article of the 28th . on Infant Mortality many reasons have beeR given for its e increase. One more novel than the rest Mr. 1kin has in- ,3 troduced, namely, the existence ...

... INFANT NEGLECT AND MORTALITY. The more closely we cxanr.ine the practice of child- insurance (says the Lancet) the less there appears to commend it. Notwithstanding the fart that disease is much more prevalent during the early years of life than later ...

... that the excess of infant mortality in such a year as 1893 implies a real increase of the mean death-rate of infants is not less misleading than it would be to proclaim a decrease of infant mortality because the death-rate of ...

... under live years of age. of these . 214, or 23 3 per cent., were infants under one year. These figures are considerably under tse average of previous ' corresponding, quarters. Infant Mortality, measured by 3 the proportion of deaths under one year to the ...

... of young and.middlo-aged married women in factory labour. The effect of this in increasing infant mortality is serious an, it will be seen at once at here is a cause independent of bad drainage, deficient or impure water, and other matters of sanitary ...

... somewhat lower than the per-centage in the two s corresponding quarters. Of these 249 or 247 per cent. were infants under 1 year. Infant mortality, measured s by the proportion of deaths under I year to total births, I shows a great decrease, being 163 ...

... the buildings who were removed to hospitals, waa 18-19 per 1,000, which i* 3-21 per 1,000 beiow the average London. The infant mortality 133-67 in each 1,000 births, or below that of London. ...

... were infants under one year. Infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths of children under one year to each 1,000 births, was 419, as against 142 and 158 in the first quarter of 1879 and 1880. In the 20 large towns infant ...

... 1887. '[lie excess in the death-rate, from all causes, was produced by T the heavy infant mortality, and that was chiefly due to an epidemic of mcasles. 'be infant mortality amounted to 534 under one year of age, and equalled the rate of 6 0 per 1,000 living ...

... must be an excessive infant mortality in Bradford West, or the registration of births must be very much neglected. There is no evidence, either from the ages at death or the causes of death, of any excessive mortality of infants in this district, and ...

... for England and Wales. The present rate is about 41) per 1.000 below the average infant mortality for the nineteen principal large towns. The period of high infant mortality has scarcely arrived yet. If the temperature rises much. We shall soon find increased ...