... Infant Mortality, The mortality of infants undey nn(-l year was equal to 80 per 1,000 registered live births, This rate was' seven per 1,000 below the average of | the ten preceding first quarters, i The natural decreize of population by excess of deaths ...

... ago T here were 646 deaths of infants in the first year of ife, compared with 753 in 1982, and the infant death rate per 1000 live births has fallen from 11.4 to 9.9. The infant death rate for illegitimate children is over 45 per cent. higher than for ...

... INFANT MORTALITY The total number of deaths registered in 1983 There were 676 perinatal was 63,454, which is 1568 deaths (stillbirths and less than in 1982. _ deaths in the first week of The report contains |ife) in 1983, 10.6 per detailed analyses by ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. “Weo ought to have infant welfare centres within reach of all the working mothers throughout the length and breadth of the country,” said Mr. A. H. D. Acland, commenting, at a meeting at London Univer:’}y, on the fnolt. that about 4() ...

... INFANT MORTALITY There was submitted and read a letter from Mrs Leisk, Seeretary of the herwick Nick Aid Society, encloding a cipeular from the Queen Vietoria’s Jubilee Nurses Institute, Edinburgh. The circular was in reference to the Act dealing with ...

... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhcea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the contamination ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN FRANCE Starthing figures in regard to the fantile mortality of France have just bewn published. Of every 1,000 children under the age of one year 251 die at Rouen, 204 at Lille, 342 at Dunkirk, 414 at Mars-en- Bazoeuf, 507 at Halluin ...

... there, has been no appreciable decline in the neonatal mortality rate. Inp the short period covered infant mortality fell by 17 per cent., post-neonata] mortality by 42 per cent. but neonatal | mortality showed no tendency to | decrease. l ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AND ALCOHOL. Dear Sig,~ln a trenchant article contributed to a London daily paper, Dr C. W. Salecby draws a vivid contrast between the condition of Paris and that of Edimburgh from ‘the point of view of their infant population. Our tnve ...

... REDUCING INFANT MORTALITY Referring to the urgent question of the preservation of infant life to fill up the terrible gaps caused by the war and its consequences, Sir James said a great deal of infant life was sacrificed owing to a deficiency, or inferior ...

... births by six. The infant mortality rate had increased from 72 per 1,000 births in 1924 to 78 per 1,000 births last year. The actual nnmger of infant deaths was 37, and of these 1 occurred in the first week after birth. The infant mortality ...

... Spotlight on Infant Mortality Statistics Infant mortality statistics in Fife were spotlighted at the meeting of the County Health and Welfare Committee in Cupar on Tuesday by Hon. Treas. R. Turpie, Leven, when he pointed out that during the quarter from ...