... nothing can be more delicate or car sensitive than an ?? sensitive than the vital organs of ai -infant. It must ' then be understood that the' great infant mortality pre occurs amongst those families wvhich are compelled to live in second, third, and fourth ...

... Urban Sanitary District, we find the death-rate was 2094 per 1000, and the infant mortality 105 per 1000, being fewer by 5 I and by 26 per thousand than in 1885. The infant mortality was the lowest in the district. This, Dr. REES says, is perhaps a more reliable ...

... animal food altogether. The death-rate among both blacks and whites in December was three times the average, and the infant mortality is very high. Privations are beginning to tell, adds the correspondent, and until we get relief in the shape of provisions ...

... entirely escape from measles, bar, the cases were few and mild. The rates of mortality were excep. tiosally low. the general rate being 10 5 per 1000, while the rate of infant mortality was nil, no child under one year of age having died in the course of the ...

... Wales. The rate of infant mortality in the county is particularly striking. Since 1893 it has increased from 130.1 per 1,000 to 17.4 per 1,000, taking the average for the whole county. But in Festiniog the rate of infant mortality for the year was no ...

... shillinugys and co wts wa imposed. A particular feature in the report was that attention was directed to III excess in the infant mortality during the past years, not due to infectious diseases but to gteneral causes. Among general causes insufficient nursing ...

... epidemic diecases make their appearance. The rate of mortality during the yoer was 16'50 per 1000, being lower thanl the average mortality in the rural districts of England and Wales, and the infant mortality was 84 per 1000 ; the average for England and Wales ...

... hirthrate in their district was 26 8; but taking Englirid and Wales it was 31 6. Mr Borthwiok furoher priinted-out that infant mortality was at the rute of 149 per thousand In 1heir distriot as compared with 136 per thousand inEngland. Ie made there comparisons ...

... tricts, Real infant mortality. may be measured by its proportion to births registered ; to eAch. 100. births in 1870, 16 deaths of infants under one year of age occurred (the per centae~ was 1li amonug male aud 14-6 among female infants). Among children ...

... of 15*4 ;and 2rl per 1,000 per annum. The infant (mortality during the same period was 6, being :in the proportion of: 120 deaths 1,000 births of persons 65 years of age and upwards 12idied, giving a mortality of 5'1 per 1,000 per annum, or one third the ...

... classes, the lecturer proceeded with his subject. He pointed out that the times were ou of joint, from the high state of infant mortality- half dying before they were five years of age; the dis- satisfaction in every relationship of life; the laws con- sidered ...

... moortality frix zymotic diseases 'was seven, ivhioh, according te the ratio for England and Wles, was very low, The infant, mortality iri the district under one Year of age Iwas 26, The morteiti from phtlkbibW ve TI-: A large emount of sanitary work ...