... INFANT MORTALITY. Yesterday Mr. Gerald Balfour promised • deputation that the Local Government Board 'maid to obtain information con. the raw of infant mortality in tertain districts with • view to remedial ammo being taken. ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN ESSEX. CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL OFFICEt«S. On Wednesday afternoon representatives Saintary Authorities in esces met at the invitation of Dr. Thrush. County Officer, in Loccuro of the Nursers' Home, Isaytonstone ' to dip the of Olt incesinve ...

... sod in the paragraph reforriug to infant mortality, the of the fleet was obscured by the substitution of the word increased in• steed of memurad. The sentence should hove read thus :— The rote of infant mortality, by the proportleo of death. under ...

... 181 per 1,000, to 152. The death-rate of infants is as high as 175 out of every 1,000 registered, or 17 above the average; the highest county rate being reported from Leicestershire, where the infant mortality reaches the alarming extent of 231 per 1 ...

... births with 311, whilst it. death/Me of $Ol is far above that of the average. The returns generally show an increase In infant mortality ; but the death. from rymotic dimness much lower than usual, being 113, as against 214 in the ten preceding first quarters ...

... 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 ...

... cum In Dialdon there were 203 births, and the f 3 deaths under the average by five. Fever was here fatal In five mama Infant mortality was heavy, aa 21 of the deetha were those of children ntder one year. There wero three deaths due to vialence. Rochford ...

... county also shows a satisfactory return. Infant mortality, which in some parts is alarming, is comparatively low in Essex, the rate being for the county 119 per 1,000 of children born. In Rutland the mortality is as high as 200 per 1,000 born. The deaths ...

... sheence of full return. is not precticahlo to give death-rates of the population living at different ages. The rata of infant mortality, measurc.d by the proportion of deaths of children under one year of age per 1,000 born, was E 2. 7'he death-rate from ...

... 62 of infants under one year, 129 of persons aged upwards of GO years. The rate of infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered, was equal to 981 per 1,000. For the United Kingdom the rate of infant mortabty ...

... been taken to prevent C mtagion, cod ling,. the dine An analysis of the death-lilt will Shows large percentage of infant mortality, while Ire are of the age of 70 and upwards. Twenty-seven deaths have been regtstered Or them, eight, all adults, occurred ...

... 34 deaths all OS of infants under one year of age, and 132 persons upwards of CO years. rate of mortality, messuroi by the propor• of deaths under one year, to births registered was equal to per 1,000. I think this infant mortality Is a matter for serious ...