... TEMPERATURE AND THE . DEATH-RATE, INFANT MORTALITY, Compared with whiar we had peevousy exporienced, lasi week was ealilid obe descnbed #s cool, for the mean tmum at the lfi Otwervatory, Greenwich, ~ was lower that of the preceding seven weeks. But we ...

... Halton, May 2nd, 1889, J. WILKINSON. INFANT MORTALITY, Peai S, -Would you allow me to refute a statement made at the last meeting of the Lan- caster Town Council by his Worship the Mayor, in reference to infantile mortality and burial societion, Now, sir, ...

... motion was carried, and the committee are already at work. Mr. Gilchrist stated some striking facts. One was that the infant mortality of Lancaster is above the average ; the other, that if the death.rate could be be reduced to 16 per I,ooo—no unreasonable ...

... per thonsand ; or in the other case 7-24 per thousand. Again there were onl of children under five years of age, shew! infant mortality. Lastly be stated thal been no death from any eause of an i contagious character. Mr. Svumers said he had at on th nearly ...

... SuNmINGG, A 44 5 ¥56 Factred thttght P?o M:g:-; ;llilox:mfiux was glad l'[r Gilehrist had drawn b ntion (o the high rate of infant mortality, Making ...

... (34 deaths) 7-24 per thousand. Again there were only fivedeaths of childrea under five years of age, shewing a small infant mortality. Lastly be stated that there had been no death from any cause of an infections or contagious character. Mr. Svsmens said ...

... Surveyor at their expense.—Mr, . .{‘ . 18 Bk b Ald. Hatch axd Mr. Ald. Towers were appointed a sub- | Fadically wrong or the infant mortality would no committeg to fix the prico and approve the conditions |BO high. During the last 40 years the death-rate had ...

... the fact of the fatalities which beset infant life in towns, Some 25 per cent. of them dio in their first year, and by the fiith almost ogo-half of them have run their mortal carcer, Such being the fact where infant assurance doos not obtain, it seems at ...

... than onehalf. This result may scem surprising, but it is largely accounted for by the great mortality of persons under marriageable age, especially ofy infants up to the age of five. No fewer than 38 per cent. of babies die before they are five years old ...

... figures the mortality of Lancaster ia really alarming and demands instant sttention. For delay will certainly have the effect of further adding to the death-sato ; and we muy fullow the terrible course of Preston, which had last week a mortality of 35 in ...

... and the high, Shall crumble to dust and together shall lie. t The infant, a mother attended and loved, The mother that infant’s affections who proved, 1 The father that mother and infant who blessed, | Each, all are away to their dwelling of rest. | The ...

... increase, [ In almost every year the mortality in the June quarter ia less than what is in each of the others, and this appears to be the ease in the town and sub-district of Laneaster. There was o decrease (in the mortality of the latter in the period which ...