... that persons under 16 are infants in the eye of the law; but when I spoke of infant mortality I used the word in its ordinary sense, meaning babies, and if I can be shown that the per centage of mortality amongst infants of a year or two ...

... was 211 per I,oeo, and the report stated that though the mortality was considerably above the average, there was no prevalence of ep:demic disease. There was a large proportion of infant mortality due to various causes. The medical officer had paid several ...

... the report to which attention is to be called are the returns of infant mortality, which are the more interesting after the recent discussion in our columns on the rate of infant mortality in the Liverpool Workhouse. The deaths for the borough under five ...

... preventing overcrowding in large towns by legislation only. Dr. TRENCH read a paper on Infant Mortality in Liverpool, from which it appears that although some of the mortality arose from preventible causes, yet a very large proportion arose from diseases over ...

... and others who neglected the orders of the physician , , altogether. Upon the whole, then, we may sum upLlie causes of infant mortality in the words of Dr. Reece, classes them thus : —I. Defective vitality at bieth„ L trRP5- mated hereditary from one or ...

... preventing overcrowding in large towns by legislation only Dr. TRENCH read a paper on Infant Mortality in Liverpool, from which it appears that although some of the mortality arose from preventible causes, yet a very large proportion arose from diseases over ...

... fact, I did not find the rate of mortality among those children unduly high. The Committee of Management of the Royal Liver Friendly Society, immediately on becoming aware of the opinions on the subject of infant mortality expressed by the Commissioners ...

... the percentage of infant mortality to births was 17, 38, and 18 respectively. It would be hazardous, without further information, to attempt to pronounce what degree of effeet, if any, these early marriages exercise upon infant mortality; but the figures ...

... Council, is now in progress in that town with 'reference to allegations which have been made of the prevalence of excessive infant mortality. One medical gentleman had stated that year by year the lives of scores and scores of children were sacrificed by their ...

... abolished. He believed it could not be gainsaid that the overcrowded slate of the town was the cause of a great deal of the infant mortality. He would . also call attention to the new by-law, which be thought was even more important than the Act of Parliament ...

... on is that of infant mortality. The 135,000 deaths at all ages included 31,719 of infants under one year of age, equal to 138 per 1,000 births registered. This seems an enormous rate, and yet it is 13 per 1,000 below the average infant death-rate in the ...

... loss of infant life in the workhouse was terrible. At the weekly meeting of the Workhouse Committee, the Clerk to the Vestry, whose ablility as a valuable public officer will readily be admitted, produced returns showing w hat the infant mortality had been ...