... year were 371 and the births 791, tbe ansual death-rate being 18-5, calculated on an estimated population of 20,000. Infant mortality wu reported to be very heavy 59 per cent, of the deaths being children under five yeara of age. Tbe provision of an ...

... He applied to the magistrates formally for a warrant, and it was refused, The CHAIRMAN called attention to the great infant mortality in the city. In the report of the medical officer he found there were N91 children who (lied whose ages wore under one ...

... immi- grants arrived in the island, and when the census was taken a short time since the population was only 156,000. The infant mortality in Antig us is so frightful that the Duke of Newcastle has drawn the attention of the clergy of the island to the ci ...

... having occurxed at Shotley, while fatal cases of diphtheria were reported from Brantham, Tattingstone, and 1 Shotley. Infant mortality showed an increase, 57 children having died under the age of five years as against 40 in 1894. Mr. Elliston also reports ...

... fewcases, the young sufferers who have been sent back to gladden the homes of our poor, and rescued from the sweep of that infant mortality which is exciting public anxiety, would, but. for this Hospital, have been wholly destitute of medical attention, or ...

... it did not spread. The death rate for the year was 18 96 per 100, and the infant mortality 119, the latter being a great improvement on former years ; in 1878 the infant mortality was 43 per 1000 above the average for England and Wales in the same year ...

... annum, wnilst the average for the borough at Iarge was only 20, and he specially alluded to the fact that, whilst the infant mortality - among children under five years-was on the wvhole only seven, in the district referred to it was between lb and 16 ...

... leaus of checking thke crime; and to report on the I3 si death of young children, the best meaos for pre- :n-- exessive infant mortality, and to suggest some lilan I ria e.re and rearing of illegitimate children other than _ *tprus-ut workhouse system. 1 ...

... 57'1 Char Brit, S Africa 2 Con Gold Field ?? 4 STARuCH POISONINGr has been said authority to be ~~~the main cause5 or infant, mortality. Ngo farinaceous f8od 311001 o given to a. child till it has ilneiul teeth, usnless such food hsbe onalted. Horlickt's ...

... constantly in-. creasing; The effects of women and children labour on the rising generation Avere exhibited in various ways. Infant mortality in all Holland. increased 18 per cent. between 1880 and 1885, while in Maastricht the increase was 21,- Bind- hoven 30 ...

... as to Heugh pushing her he has been taken into custody, end remains in the Darlington Polie-atatiou. EXThAORDINAPLY INFANT MORTALITY AT BAR. now.-Dr. Settle, the medical ocuicer of health for Barrow. innFurness. has reported to the Health Committee that ...

... year.-The Medical Officer of s Health (Dr. Piper) presenties his quarterly re- N port, which showed a large increase in infant mortality. One special feature was the number of persons who had died of heart disease, number- i ing eighteen, which was considered ...