... included 02 of infants under one year, and 129 of persons aged upwards of 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. This marked decline infant ...

... g only inches. Infant mortality is important index of the sanitary status of population. It sntisho. tory, therefore, to find that Essex, notwithstanding its largo urban aggregations, had tbs not excessive rate of 114 deaths of infants under one year ...

... Archdeacon. Infant Mortality Unusually High.'— The Medical Oihcer (Mr. K. Ilunt Carter* reported that-during the past month births and 17 deaths were registered. The rate of infant mortality was ally high, s:x of the deaths being of ...

... fnll census returus ibis not practicable to give the death rates of the population _ living different ages. The rate of infant mortality, measured by tho proportion of deaths of children under one year of age per thousand born, was 82. The death rate from ...

... proportion of population find deaths in the union workhouse and in public institutions within tho district. Tho rate of infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths of children under one year of ago to births, was 97, tho corresponding rate for ...

... TiUingtuun ~ F. Widow Burnham F. Widow labourer i Mayland F. Widow of labourer Hazeloigh F. Not stated I Heybridge The of infant mortality measured the prol portion of deaths of children under one year of age per thousand bora was 101, the corresponding rate ...

... The eastern the bodies of people w had died the either in the garden the honse where they died, and the apparent largo infant mortality the village at the end the 17th century, were also gleaned from register. Dr. Rachel R. of University College, spoke ...

... years by J's. This excess of mortality waa attributable to the high rate among children under five, caused by wbooping-congh and diseases of tbe respiratory organs during the severe weather of December. The rate of infant mortality, measnred by the proportion ...

... hundred years have had some effect. Expectation of life is prolonged, and a steady decline is shown in mortality from tuberculosis and in infant mortality, for instance. But medical knowledge has also progressed; the cause of many hitherto mysterious disorders ...

... adjusted death rate per 1,000 for the year was 11.49 per cent.; the death rate for England and Wales 11.6 per cent. The infant mortality rate for the year was 35.3 per cent.; the rate for England and Wales 53 per cent. The year had shown a steadily increasing ...

... cent, in th-i Wickford district. This contrasts very favourably with the figures last year, and also with the rate of infant mortality in England generally, which, in 1539, was 144 per 100 of registered births. Several rather extensive outbreaks of zymotic ...

... Committee, and would emphasise the necessity of this being done. Dr. Richardson (medical officer of health) reported that the infant mortality rate in the borough for 1929 was only 13.5 per 1,000. ...