... the district had been comparatively free from that disease. The number of deaths among infants 62, 4 were under the age of one year, showing the rate of infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to the registered births, was 12'68 ...

... labourers. The French peasants do not incerase in numnbers, there is no emigration from the rural districts in France, and infant mortality among the peasantry is very large, equal to 50 per cent, in the first year of life. Surely this can- not be the secret ...

... Registrar-General's quarterly returns Ps 177 per 1,000. The mortality from zymotic diseases also shewed a de- crease, whilst the infant mortality, as shewn by the pro- portion of deaths of infants under one year, to registered births was satisfactorily below ...

... Registrar2General's quarterly returns as 17 4 per 1,000. The mortality from zyanotic diseases also shows a decided decrease, whilst the infant mortality, as shown by the proportion of deaths of infants under one year to registered births is again satisfactorily ...

... sewage, and the feeline of tile town couscil was that Exeter must also divert its sewage from the Exe. Tue increase of infant mortality was discussed, and it was resolved that steps should be taken to put the Contagious Diseases Act in force, compel the ...

... to be in Ipswich in the middle of the present year, the 320 deaths give the high annual rate of mortality of 273 per 1,000 living. By comparing the mortality in the sub-dietricts they will all be found to be high, espe. cially St. Clement's, where the denth ...

... Committee to confer with the coroner and the medical men, some of whom have given evidence confirmatory of the high rate of infant mortality, ...

... year there had boeu 707 birtbs'and; 3441 deatbs, the birth-rate being 38'6, sod death-rate 18'5 per 1,000; and that the infant mortality in the North and West Wards was most excessive, in the West eipecialUy, where it'was rather more than half the entire ...

... were 245 a ,more births than deaths,: and during the ten years ending 1887, there were 2,189 more births than deaths. Infant mortality wnas 127-8, unlder five years, 339; -abore ffO years, 96 5. The death-rate from zrymotic diseases was 0P67. No casa of ...

... in the mortality amongst infants, the number being fewer even than in 1897, which was one of the lowest on re- co'rd. Of the 43 deaths, 36 vwere infants under one year of age, and seven between one year and under five. The rate of infant ...

... mounitains during all the gological periods of time striving to be men, and some of the s od failed, for there was han infant mortality amonat monutainbs as abc ong volcanoes. (Laughter.) Soee never reached beyond a certain stage, and others toek whote ...

... further remarks on the subject, lie contended that they must look to vaccination for the cause of the great rate of l infant mortality which at present existed. (Cheers.) The Chairman invited others to give their opinion on the subject, and some amusement ...