... the Medical Officer of Health's report for 1947 Dr J. Mervyn Thomas writes: We can record with great pride the low infant mortality rate of 25.97 per 1,000 (England and Wales 41V The Birth Rafe was 21.88 per 1,000, and the Death Rate 9.86 per 1,000 ...

... Messrs. Barclay and Co. was accepted.—The Medical Officer, in his annual report, stated that the total mortality was per 1.000, while the infant mortality was low.—lt was decided to apply to the L.G.B. for au Older vesting in tho Council the powers conferred ...

... national point of view the best woTk for the mother was the proper up-bringing her children. However, if the high rate of infant mortality which now existed was to be reduced, and mothers were obliged to go to work account economic conditions, day nurseries ...

... country the rate of infant mortality last quarter did not exceed 127 and 136 per 1,000 births, whereas it ranged upwards to 158 in the North-western and 173 in the Welsh divisions. At Colchester, however, the rate of infant mortality was about the largest ...

... rate of infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths of children under one year of age per thousand born, was CO. The death rate from the principal zymotic diseases was I'B per thousand of the population. Death Deaths of rate from infants Statistical ...

... showed that the death rate for 1905 was 8.3 and the birth rate 19 per 1,000. There had been a marked decrease in the infant mortality during the year, the death rate being per 1,000 births registered, against an average 95 since the year 1900. The total ...

... 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 ...