... INFANT MORTALITY Nine Deaths During Last Month Striking features of the report of the Rochdale Medical Officer of Health (Dr. J. Innes) for the four weeks ended on December 13th are a considerably increased birth rate and an abnormally high number of ...

... Infant Mortality Referring to infantile mortality, the report states that tho deaths occurring from causes peculiar the first year or two of life numbered 366, which was improvement upon tlie past few years. Such mortality is comparatively low in bettor ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Sir, —Reading as I do, week by week, the obituary column in your valuable paper, I cannot help noticing the large number of deaths there are in Barrow of children under two years of age. There must be a cause for this frightful mortality ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The infant mostality rate shows the number of deaths of children under one year of age per one thousand births. In 1917 in the borough Of Heywood it was 129. as agninst 136 in the preceding year. In England and Wales at was 97. Yen r ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. CORONER'S SUGGESTIONS. / j This afiernoon, at the conclusion of at Chelsea the body of Margaret months, tho child of hawker, which ijf tion from overlaying, the Coroner ( r *kl remarked that it was one of those nC rs j had so many. ...

... Infant Mortality, Poverty, ignorance, drunkenness and bad housing are the enemies of infant life. child bom in East Torteth has twice the chances living compared with child born Scotland Exchange Divisions. Hie time is coming c-vcry preventable death ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. TO THEU nrrons or TreE T traroRPOO tR ,T. Gentlemen,-I observe, throagh the medium of your columns, that the question of infant mortality has been again brought prominently before the public, and may be shortly the means of further ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The Infant mortality rate shows the number of deaths of children under one year of age per one thousand births. In 1918 in the borough of Heywood it woe 112. as against 129 initl parading pear. In England and Wale. it was, ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. of imfatits under 1 year.—The itifant mortality rate is colt:aimed por 1,000 births, and the numbor of 68. This gives a mortality rate of 189.9. For the year 1910 it was 157.5, aid for the previon, 10 years 144.9. total number of deaths ...

... INFANT MORTALITY I have been reading a very sensible letter addressed to the Editor of a medical journal, by a medical man, on the high death rate which prevails among infants in our great centres of population. ‘There is no question here of the high ...

... INFANT MORTABITY. Am ( From the Leeds Mi } tion of the many subjects which have the atten- @ Social Science Congress now at York, Rone, per! ich &@ more pai interest the vast mortality w in some the country appears to prevail among infants. Several papers ...

... + INFANT MORTALITY. The Floodgate-street area of Birmingham, which costs the ratepayers of the city £lO,OOO a year in police, charity, and other administration, Las an infant death-rate of over 250 per thousand. In the St. Mary’s Ward this rises to 331 ...