... respect to the dangers alleged to arise from the use of condensed, separated milk. There are those who attribute a high infant mortality prevalent in our big towns to the increased employment of this article in the nursery and the sickroom. We suspect, however ...

... phthisis death-rate of .99 per 1,000. There were 13 deaths, giving a cancer mortality of 1.07, The deaths of infants under ore year old were 13 in number, giving am infant mortality of 75.59. During the year 91 houses were reported on under the Mousing and ...

... Cos The high percentage in infant mortality is, I note, not peculiar to Exmouth. Other towns in Devonshire have to record a similar regrettable state of things. There is no doubt at all that the deaths of numbers of infants aro due to ignorance and o ...

... this more than compensated by the decline in the infant mortality. The saving of infant life in this district during the last ten years has been very remarkable, there having been a fall in tne infant death-rate from 139 per 1,000 in 1900 to 58*2 per ...

... wanted the Act exteneed to additional trades, and a great deal more needed to be done. The shortest cut to doing away with infant mortality, the white slave traffic, and sweating was for women to get the vote and to go to work from that point. (.Applause.) ...

... small holdings movement, and at a sale at Old Lecke the average price obtained was £7O an acre. With the view of reducing infant mortality, the St. Pancras Borough Council has decided to pay to the father, or, failing him, to the doctor, midwife, medical student ...

... Office for hours and more pay. Deaths from enteric fever in London rose last week twelve, being six above the average. The infant mortality from diarrhoea and enteritis fell to 335. having'been 537, and 368 the three preceding weeks. A strange coincidence has ...

... Melbourne City, rl6 - 8. In zymotic mortality the comparison per 10,000 deaths is still more decidedly in favour of Melbourne. The figures are London, 204 ; English towns, 19 . 2; Melbourne City, 7.9. The infant mortality per 1000 compares as follows: London ...

... of their lives in pleasant, retirement a total of 30 deaths, giving a rate of 13.6 per 1,000, is satisfactorily low. Infant mortality, too, is practically inconsiderable. The birth-rate, 14.0 per 1,000, is as high as can reasonably be expected, considering ...

... and 25 under one year. Three peaths were due to zymotic diseases, giving a death-rate of 0.28, as against 2.38. The infant mortality was 102.04, as against 136 for 1901. There were 17 deaths from phthisis and 15 from cancer. Only one case of diphtheria ...

... surveys—seems pleased to communicate the interesting fact that infant mortality on the Island has boon poroopfcibly within recent years, circumstance (though the precise cause of the mortality has hitherto only been a matter of conjecture among medical men) ...

... be avoided in the future. The death-race during 1911 wa& low, while there were rather more births* than in 1910. The infant mortality is the lowest record. The district is formed by the civil parishes of Little ham and Withy com be, and covers an area ...