... INFANT MORTALITY. During the bearing of case the other afternoon, at Manchester, in which a mother had overlaid her infant, the deputy city coroner, Mr. Sidney Smelt, made several strong remarks the growing frequency of cases of this class, not only in ...

... THE BEVERLEY RECORDER AND GENERAL ADVERTISER—SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1889. INFANT MORTALITY. Tbs recent odd sad wet weather has had a disastrous effect open the health of children in Liverpool. At the last iiinetisn the Health Committee it was reported that ...

... the percentage of infant mortality in the borough. During the three years in which special work againwt infant mortality been in progress 6,740 births have boon registered, ard died under one year of age, giving the total infant ...

... deputation at the House C. mmons from public health authorities on tho question infant mortality Mr. Burns, replying after the Prime Minister, said that the' subject infants’ food tho deputation would hear with pleasure that tho Local Government Board had ...

... CIVIC NURSERY. In view of the etartling figures of infant mortality, it is interesting to note that the Huddersfield Corporation Wednesday adopteda scheme with the idea of redneing the deaths amongst newly-born children that are directly traceable to ...

... the former country, mortality, which in 1880 averaged onlv 17 per 1.000 inhabitants, in 1906 had fallen 14. Infant mortality shrank from 112 to per 1.000. In Norway the rate showed reduction from 16 13 per 1,000, and that infante from to 69. For these ...

... gaining ground. The diminishing birth-rate of the professional and middleclasses, with the high birth-rate and diminished infant mortality of the lower classes, was now agitating the minds of many, but tbs fact remained that Nature cared very little about ...

... undertake rather more than our own guardians of the s:nv. In Germany, for instance, the police bble in such subjects as infant mortality, and tax levying and collecting. In Ireland the police barracks’ notice-boards often contain advice, particularly in ...

... quarters. “Notwithstanding the general prevalence of measles, disease mainly fatal among young children the rate mortality infants under one year of ago in the seventy-seven large towns last quarter did not exceed 115 per 1.000 registered births, co ...

... a ‘‘sane’’ Fourth of July celebration without explosives and fireworks. Mr. John Burns stated at Caxton Hail that the infant mortality rate had decreased from 145 per 1,000 in 1904 to 106 per 1,000 in 1910— representing a saving of betwecn 40,000 and 50 ...

... decline, upon the same basis of comparison, in the rates of death from specific diseases was as follows; Per cent. 38 Infant mortality Measles Scarlet fever Whoopinp tO Diphtheria and croup 57 Enteric fever 75 Tuberculosis (all forms) 32 Pulmonary tuberculosis ...

... wore condemned official* of the Bermondsey Borough Council on the ground that they were unfit for human consumption. Infant mortality at Letohworth. said Mr. Justice Neville, presiding a meeting the Garden Citiea and Town Planning Association, was per ...