... INFANT MORTALITY is always highest among the poor. It is merely the low death-rate among the better classes that keeps the average down. Exclude these better classes and it is obvious that the rate must ns*. The matter is, however, one that ought to be ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Dr J. M. Ballenden, M.D., the medical officer to the Local Board of the nail making and mining district of Seilg'ey, near Wolverhampton* iu his annual report say 3 that nearly twothirds of the population died during the past year before ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. cbi-ef cause the high rate of infantile mortality 5«, that Sal ford, in other cotton-manafaoturing districts, mothers leave their offspring soon after fcirth. this enstom. Ta'.ham speaks very strongly:—'The unfortuna e littl nnrsliogs ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN MANCHESTER. Mr Smelt, the for Manchester, to-dey alluded to the infantile mortality of the city, more especially to the numerous cases of children or suffocated in_bed. The yearly average of such cases was 100. Was reason to they were ...

... INFANT MORTALITY WARWICK. Wilson, medical officer of health for Warwick, yesterday directed the Town Council's attentiou to the excessive infant mortality in the burgh, which last year equalled 176 per thousand births. Many deaths attributed to wasting ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AT BLYTH. The Medical Officer of Health to the South District Council has just issued his annual report, from which it appears that during the year ending December 31 the deathrate was 20.72—a rate due in considerab'e degree to the large ...

... Infant Mortality in France. Rochard, Member of the Acedemy of Medicine, has given • lecture at the Sorbonne on the Depopulation of France. He showed, says the Paris correspondent of the Alr , y News, by the returns ot the last Census in the provinces ...

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... INFANT MORTALITY RUSSIA. There is hardly a country the world where infant mortality assumes more appalling dimensions than in Russia. This may easily explained by the method in which new-born infants are commonly treated, so that it is ...

... NORMOUS INFANT MORTALITY Dr G. Danford Thomas, at an inquiry as to the death of an overlain child in London, said that he held 300 cases annually on children who were suffocated in bed with their parents. There were over 1000 children suffocated in London ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN BIRMINGHAM. At an inquiry Birmingham yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of a months old child named Elizabeth Nocn, the Coroner remarked that this was one of the hundreds of deaths that had occurred in Birmingham ...

... infantile mortality of Glasgow. A great ! proportion of the infants of the poor and working classes are horn iu conditions unfavourable to health, and die before reaching the age of live years. Since the fact of the disproportionate infantile mortality of Glasgow ...