... INFANT MORTALITY. There were 122 death* of infants under 1 year ot age resident the Borough registered the Borough daring the year and as 1.420 infante were registered ns having been bora residents, the Infantile mortality rate, 1.e.. ...

... were blame for this state affairs, and they ought to be altered so as to put end to it. “Infant mortality,” continued Mr. Wardle, “not only affected the infants themselves, but it had its influence upon the home life, right away from the beginning to ...

... 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 ...

... perhaps notice the high infant mortality, 35 per cent of the deaths registered occurring in uhiloren under one year of age, but a number of these can be accounted for as premature births (5.) The next age period at which mortality was highest was from 25 ...

... otleetyeer. The deeth rete, 19-20, we* high, end I wee 2 60 above thet of the leri 13 yeere. end we* 4-34 above of leri year. Infant mortality, or the number of death* under 1 1 veer, we* 78, end we* the rete 5.23 per I 1000. or, meeeured by the proportion* ol ...

... prevailed, the percentage of infant mortality births waa 17,18, and 19 respectively. would be hacardoua, without further information, to attempt pronounce what degree of effect, it any, thee* early marriages exerdae upon infant mortality; but tha figures are ...

... pointed out that the birth rate for the country is on the decline. The death rate is the highest recorded since 1832. The infant mortality, it is interesting to notice, ,is 120 per 1.000 born, as compared with the figure of average for the whole country of ...

... teeth, when a catastro ph e might take place against which regrets would avail but ! INFANT MORTALITY IS Soma Aueesazia.—A paper upon the aucoessive mortality amongst infants in South Angleslbo, prepared by the Victorian Government elatist. Mr. Helder. and ...

... quarter of 1875 are not yot available. The 546,317 deaths included 134,294 of infants one year of age, and 138.662 of persons aged upwards of 60 years. The cate of infant mortality measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births was 158 per ...

... consideration, adopted the reports. Tha chief object aimed at was the better safeguarding of the working classes against infant mortality and infectious diseases by providing them with good houses, amply fitted up with what should be regarded as necessities ...

... hooest fa the Orate of our towns and sides. A great dad said in the Report to which I have so often referred about the infant mortality and the physioal deterioration arising from the labour of married women; but sa the two bills to whicla wish to draw ...

... and bronght op.” Bat this does not account for the great disparity infant mortality between Mahometans and Hindoos. Oat of every one thousand Mahometans 735 die, while the average mortality among the Hindoos bat 598. is to be hoped the Indian government ...