... check. A comparison with previous; years showed that the general death-rate, the zyrmotic death-rate, and the rate of infant mortality were ?? siderably below the average. '[he Clork (Mr. Tbompscn} read the report of the Infectiops DiseasesI Hospital Committee ...

... lees than it wias nine years ago. On the whole the statistics showed a very favourable improvement during tle yearo T le infant mortality was still large, many of the deaths arising from preventible causes; and the only hope of nfleielling 9thoddeafthis ...

... good hoj>e of their release. reply to Mr. Bentinck, Sir Grey said that the statement of the coroner with respect to the Infant Mortality at Emneth in Norfolk was grossly exaggerated. He instituted an enquiry, and the rejwrt, together with a statement from ...

... continued to forum a la-s port ?? 0 ' tality. W'Vhoopingol *as ca ier Ldoa Vh w iw and influenza had Leen ertensnvelv Prii infant mortality was higher thou ror A'I month. Six cases of ?? fexer, and 2 of erysipemas hat; Ue ?? On the recommendation of the San' ...

... insurance office taking a child directly it was barn. He was afraid that this sort of thing was doing no rood, sofar as infant mortality was concerned. He had helid a great many inquests, and he had noticed, as a somewhat remarkable fact, that in some cases ...

... report. The statistics afford evidence that the'excessive infant mortality in the urban districts, to which attention has several times been directed, had no tendency to decline during 1892. The infant death-rate per 1,000 births exceeded 200 in no fewer than ...

... incraseinthedistrictwas traceable almost solelytotheepidemicofinfluenza. One hundred and two infants died under the age of one year, and the infant mortality as measured by the rate of deaths under twelve months. to the number born alive was l.4 per cent ...

... report that the infant mortality of the year is not very satisfactory. The number of deaths of in- fants under one year is 2,593, and the proportion they bear to the births during the year, which is perhaps the best test of infant mortality, has risen from ...

... Handsworth had increased . from 1ib,000 to 27,000. During that period the. mortality of the dis- trict had not increased, but had decidedly de- creased. Froma 1876 to 1880 the general mortality was 24 4, or nearly 142% for every thousand inhabitants, From 1881 ...

... such a ommunlity as Birmingham all they could do weens as mere drop in the bucket. There was stilt an enormous rate of infant mortality, and if it were not for the fact that there 'was an apparent small diminution of that rate they wolld lose heart altogether ...

... (Licerpoul).--Dr. Reid dwelt on the high rate of infant mortality, dui to mothers enuaging in factory work, and, as the result of careful enquiries and statistics, said that in ten years 2,885 infants died in Statfordshire who need not have dted. In other ...

... 'There was's word which was somotimes applied to districts where SUch extensive infant mortality prevailed, and that word was Iee-edian. So long as this needless secihice of infant life continueed, so long would Warwick be fitly stignmatised as one of those ...