... powers had been enormously extended, and public health services had been instituted. As a result of welfare clinics, infant mortality had gone down by half. It was one of the essentials of modern life that public health should receive the attention of ...

... births in the district has rocketed by twice that amount with one in 20 babies having a low weight at birth and the infant mortality rate has also increased by per cent with an average of 34 babies in every 1000 births dying before their first birthday ...

... proportion of population and deaths in tl c union workhouse and in public institutions within the district. The rate of infant mortality, measured by tho proportion Of deaths of children und ;r one year of age to births was the corresponding rale for England ...

... surrounding parishes. Since the date of my half-yearly rej port we have considerable mortality from diarrhoea, confined almost entirely to very young and weakly infants ; 53 deaths from that complaint have occurred in the seven weeks (and during that period ...

... rate of 1415, as against Ms? ;„ ii^' deafch numbea of ?? io 401 T„ WUen the death rate was 147 in 1898^ and l^ES* * Infant mortality has be«n ?? « n .? 97- -town and country, in^L 3_?ss n ' gh hoth ia hitherto recorded by th^ou^ I ?) ?? Epidemic d arrhcea ...

... or AGE WELL NOT ILL WE are all living much longer these days and that could create problems in a few years The reduced infant mortality rate and greatly improved hygiene and health care have led to a huge jump in life expectancy Almost one in five of us ...

... population, whioh tho lowest death-rate in any quarter except one (the fourth quarter of 18715) the past five years. Tbe infant mortality was especially low, only per cent, of the births, and there was no death from any infect ion* disease. The number of ...

... showed a birthrate of death-rate of 124 a still birth-rate 12 infant mortality rate of 318 comparison the rates for England and were: Birthrate 163 death-rate 114 birth-rate 69 infant mortality rate i 60 of live births 46 35 and five illegitimate births ...

... talk on his experiences in Bangladesh describing the apalling conditions of poor sanitation and living conditions there Infant mortality is exceedingly high many children die before they reach five-years-old and large scale flooding causes devastation in ...

... equal to 2t>'6 per 1000 per annum, we may con- gratulate Colcheater on having a most satisfactory record. The excessive infant mortality in such crowded districts as West Ham is atill very noticeable. Aboat one-third of the deaths during the quarter at West ...

... superfluous. On the walls of the building there is a vast number of charts demonstrating the soil, healthiness, adult and infant mortality, &c, of almost every square yard of Berlin, and statistics of a similar character of the country of Germany. Models of ...

... presided. CWILD MOIVILITY.—Mr. - Peek made a agaio a idetement a speaker at the Co-operative recently. t ha t the per. of infant mortality is Workhouses 50 per agairuit 25 per cent. out. aide. Be &eked the barrister responsible for that etatement whether he ...