... the counties showing high rates of infant I mortality, except Bedfordshire, contain a large proportion of urban population. Among agricultural population! that of Bedfordshire has shown a marked excess of infant mortality ; ths proportion of deaths | under ...

... precautions, tho mortality of our rural districts hereabouts (and I might add where the density of population does not exceed 250 per square mile) may be kept on an average of years not in excess of 18 per 1,000. infant mortality, or mortality under one year ...

... making the correct total 90. There were 16 deaths from heart disease, two pneumonia, four tuberecle, and five cancer. The infant mortality was only eight, quite a satisfactory figure. There were no deaths from typhoid, scarlet fever, small-pox, or diphtheria ...

... the population. The proportion births (225) to infant deaths (18) has been as 1,000 to 80, a remarkably low rate. Infant mortality. —The deaths of infants under 1 year were only 18, giving an infant mortality ...

... HOW THE DEATHS ARE DISTRIBUTED. The deaths of infants under 1 year was 22 ; this gives an infant mortality of only 2*4 per 1,000. The deaths of children under 5 were 29, or only about 19 per cent of the entire return. 71 persons died at ages of 05 and ...

... fact is density of persone per acre, has very little to do with the causation of infant mortality. The relation indeed obtaining between deneity per acre and infant mortality is little more than a preliminary gaidance to the investigator to direct his attention ...

... r to the Workington Local Board accuses tea-drinking of being ** more mischievous than opium-eating, and causing much infant mortality.” a tea I)eum for it, exactly. A Question of btrrnt Education. Another action at law over the supply of furniture hire ...

... (224) to infant deaths (34) is as 1,000 to 151, high proportion attributable to the rather large mortality from whooping cough and infantile diarrhoea. Infant Mortality. —The deaths of infants under 1 year wore 34, giving an ...

... that the deaths at all ages were 106, which is at the rate 15 per 1,000; the rate for all England is generally 16. The infant mortality, namely 12, was very low. The number of births was 165, whereas the average of ten years is 197. The last census shows ...

... were assisted by the members’ wiveg, did the catering. INFANT WELFARE.—A concert and public meeting organised by the Committee of the Infant Welfare Centre, which was held in the Asplcy Heath Infants’ Schoolroom, on Saturday week, was well attended. The ...

... England. He considered the science of sanitation to be special mission for the ladies. Referring to the large proportion of infant mortality, especially amongst the poor, which swells the death rate in the poorer neighbourhoods of large cities, while in the ...

... aged persons. Infant Mortality: The deaths of infants under one year were 35, giving an infant mortality of 3'B per 1,000. These deaths constitute only about 20 per cent of the entire return, and the births were to the ...