... INFANT MORTALITY. During the hearing of a 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 on the growing frequency of cases of this class, not only ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. No fewer than twenty-three over-seas Dominions and countries were represented at the congress opened by Mr. John Burns to consider the question of • infant mortality. The President of the Local Government Board said that statistics showed ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Lord Robert Cecil, presiding at a meeting held in London, said that of the 120,000 infants that died in one year in England it was not too much to say that some could have been saved by proper measures being taken for their welfare. ...

... Mortality. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age was 19. giving an infant mortality rate of 40.16 per 1.000 births, es compared with a rate of 5617 in 1934 and 59.44 in 1933. Of the infants under one year who died, two were ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The CHAIRMAN drew attention to an interesting point in the annual report on the question of mortality. The infant mortality of Tonbridge had been 31.1 and he thought that they ought to take some credit for that when the ...

... Infant Mortality The report of the medical officer of health for the quarter ended December 31, 1937, was presented and showed that there had been 43 births in the district, and two deaths of infants under one year of age. ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The Health Commiteee had had before them a letter from the Local Government Board adverting to their circular letter of the lath August, 1911, with reference to ruortality among infante ariring front epidemic diarrhum, etc., and emphasising ...

... The infant mortality for 1927 totalled 21 deaths of infants below one year of age, being 48.4 per thousand born, compared with infant mortality of 69 per thousand in England and Wales generally.,; the stillbirths numbered 19. The average ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Eastbourne is to be represented at the seventh conference of the National Association for the Prevent of infant Mortality, which takes place in London from the let to the 3rd June next. Dr. Willoughby (Medical of Health) will attend ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. There were 21 deaths registered of children under one year of age during the year under review. This number is the lowest recorded in the last decade, and the infant mortality rate of 64.4 per 1,000 of registered births is consequently ...

... INFANT MORTALITY, Infant mortality iho number deaths of children under one year per thousand births registered. The rale 1913 was 71, as compared 69 m the previous year. 93 in 1911, and 81 the average for the decade. The rate in the rural districts was ...

... INFANT MORTALITY Dr. Langford reports that the infant mortality rate had risen sharply from the previous year’s record low figure. It was disappointing. although such variations were more likely to occur jas the rates fell. No significant factor had been ...