... INFANT MORTALITY. T* the deaths. 1.075 were infants under one proportion these deaths to births (infant mortality), was 116.3. ' upared with rate 130.7. returned last year. • rate , • -He in the 76 large towns is 144. • ft ile ...

... said the birth-rate the country was going down, and infant mortality was not Iss'ening. This gave rise to painful reflec-ions to the fu'ure our national efficiency. The fundamental cause infant mortality was the want recognition of the duties of motherhood ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Okntt.fmrn.—Will yon the goodness to insert few lines from one who It his doty to complain. All who have read year obituary for tb>'ls»t few week* most hare been struck with the increase in the number of deaths, especially among children ...

... OF INFANT MORTALITY. Ser i —The rowan of infant SaLty en various oountries mrinde 1 widelydiverg.ng at Norway. 79 dowtho pee 1,000 and Germany. per 1.000 birth.. In the ram. ~ Rawls the infanule (Wulf-rate all the way from in Vinland to 440 eu Not:go:cid ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH also reported his visit the Infant Mortality Conference, held on June 13th and in which he stated that the aim of the conference was to consider the social conditions bearing directly or indirectly upon ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The infant mortality was remarkably low ciuring the week ended 18th July, only eight deaths having occurred, corresponding rate of 45.7. In neither week was any death returned amongst infants due to diarrhoea, but this is ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. It was hoped that the Duchess of Beaufort would be able to preside at the conference of women on hygiene, held at the lesser ball of the Victoria Rooms, but her Grace wrote stating that the recent death of her mother-in-law, the Dowager ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. A letter from the National Conference Infantile Mortality, held in March, was received, asking the council to support resolution passed at the conference urging the Board of Education and educational authorities generally to take such ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. No fewer than twenty•three over.sess Dominions and enuntrien were represented at the congress opened by Mr. John Bunis to consider the question of infant mortality. The President of the Local Government Board said that statistics showed ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Special Inquiry in Four Districts. is announced tn*at in four selected districts in this country, namely, Sunderland, Croydon, Oxfordshire, and parts of Staf■ fordshire, very careful inquiry is to be carried out, over period of twelve ...

... then it plain that as the high rate of infant mortality was still kept up, some other cause must have come to prevent the amendment which ought to have been coincident with the removal of this cause. Leeds the infant deaths were at the rate of per 1,000 ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Dr. J. M.Ballenden, M.D., tho medical officer to the Local Board of the nailmaking and mining district of Sedgley, near Wolverhampton, in his annual report, says that nearly two-thirds of the population died daring the past year before ...