... 815), and cancer ...

... scarlet fever, diphtheria, influenza, and measles. Kitty deaths occurred in children under one year of age. This gives an infant mortality of 120 per 1,000 horn. The zymotic death rate is 6, as compared with 2 0 for England and Wales. This is due chiefly to ...

... appalling infant mortality of former times was mentioned. A hundred years ago half the infants born were expected die in the first year of life. Reference to some the Jacobean and Georgian monuments old rarish churches would show a heavy infant ...

... infanta under five years of nge, or nearly 20 percent, more than in 1883. Dr. Cook attri-i hutea a large share of this infant mortality to improper feeding,” and this again may he due te anmo extent to the distressed condition agriculture and the lowness ...

... Michael whose fee-is said be 420,000. INFANT MORTALITY. Sir Henry Campbell-Banner man made a striking speech yesterday afternoon at Downing-street in reply to a deputation from the National Conference on Infant Mortality. He agreed that the evil was appalling— ...

... the year, and the deaths totalled 382, similar number being recorded five years ago, Sixty-four infants died under one year of age; the rate of infant mortality measured the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered was equal to 952 per 1 ...

... absence of epidemic, and freedom from geveral as well as specific diseases, all tended to produce low mortality and sickness rates; and so low an infant mortality has not previously bzen experiecced. “ Sanitarily, much excellent work hag been done. “l have every ...

... England and Wales 18 2. urban and rural mortality, comes out with 11*1 and East Ham 12~C. Iniantiie mortality (deaths under the of one year) in Essex figured at 102 per 1,000 of the population. Infant mortality at Southend was CO per 1,000, which compares ...

... The birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated population was equal to 307, the death rate being equal to 161. The rate of infant mortality measured the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered was equal to 1051 per 1,000. Among persona aged ...

... attending tho clinic, to the work of which the low rate of infant mortality in the district was greatly due. Dr. Watney, who had judged the babies, reported that the general standard of the infants was even better than last year. They were an extraordinarily ...

... numbered 142. or IS'S per 1,000 (also a decrease). The larger proportion of deaUis were of persons in advanced life. The infant mortality was lower. Seven deaths were due to diseases. Influenza had been certified primary cause of death in instances. The doctor ...

... marriages i n 1879. The most encouraging point in the figures is the decrease fn deaths, which is most marked in the case of infant mortality. • It will be remarked that 1873, the year of the Exhibithln, was. notorious for the fatalities of the cholera, which ...