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DECLINE. INCREASE IN INFANT MORTALITY

... births by six. The infant mortality rate had increased from 72 per 1,000 births in 1924 to 78 per 1,000 births last year. The actual nnmger of infant deaths was 37, and of these 1 occurred in the first week after birth. The infant mortality ...

Published: Friday 06 August 1926
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND MOTHERHOOD. By JAMES ONE

... unjustified high rate of infant mortality still prevalent in this country. In some foreign countries the question is even more acute than in Great Britain, and the waste of life which occurs annually through infant mortality which would be easily preventable ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1928
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 406 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

BIRTH RATE AND DEATH RATE

... sanitation, including the establishment of Child Welfare Clinics, has lessened the infant mortality very perceptibly. In the Victorian era the death rate per 1,000 births of infants wa. about 156, the returns for 1927 show that this has been reduced to 69. The ...

Published: Friday 02 November 1928
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BRIERFIELD DISTRICT COUNCIL

... estimate, was 7.73, as compared with 88.19, 11.00 and 8.57 for the corresponding quarters of the previous threa years. The infant mortality for the quarter was 62.5 per thousand, compared with nil, 185.10, and nil for the corresponding 'Rlunrteu of the previous ...

Published: Friday 11 May 1928
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

LANCASHIRE COMBINATION. BARNOLDSWICK’S APPEAL AGAINST NELSON

... conditions for people suffering from incipient tuberculosis, and for those discharged from sanatoria. The highest rates of infant mortality always occur in manufacturing towns; and over these there hangs throughout the year a pall of smoke which has been estimated ...

Published: Friday 19 March 1926
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

COUNTY HEALTH STATISICS

... 36; and other respiratory diseaess 35. Infant mortality amounted to 82 per thousand births in 1925, this being practically stationary during the last three years. Trawden was among the places with a high mortality and figures fourth in the average for ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1926
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 643 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

NELSON’S LOWEST BIRTH-RATE. ——’— EXCESSIVE RAIN AND LITTLE SUNSHINE. INTERESTING MEDICAL REPORT

... deaths of infants unger one year was 25, representing an infant mortality rate of 57 per 1,000 Eirths. Compared with last year, this is an increase of one per 1,000 births, although there is a decrease of two in the actual number of deaths. The infant death-rate ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1928
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 786 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PLANS

... 40 to 50, 2 males; under 12 months, 1 male. One death has occurred of an infant under 12 months, and this, based on the number of births, is equivalent to an annual infant mortality rate of 83 per thousand births, ~ WANLESS WATER BRIDGE, The Clerk submitted ...

Published: Friday 22 January 1926
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

GROW OLD GRACEFULLY

... HEALTH OF LANCASHIRE. A.A*—i REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUARTERLY REPORT The Registrar-General’s veturns of birth, death and infant mortality rates for the county horoughs of Lancashire for the 13 weeks ending June 27th are now available. During the period under ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1925
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

PLANS

... rate based on these figures would be 9.4 per thousand of population, One death has occurred of an infant under twelve months, giving an infant mortality rate for the quarter of 55.6 per thousand births. The cause of death in this case was prematurity ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1926
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: 5 | Tags: none