... report were the following statistics for Dulverton District: —Birth rate per 1.000, 25.4; death rate per 1,000, 10.8; infant mortality, per 1,000 deaths, 40.6; per 1,000 birtljs, 36.0. Deaths from zymotic diseases per 1,000,0.7; per 1,000 deaths, 67.79 ...

... INFANT MORTALITY.— ADVICE TO MOTHERS. One ot the most important topics dealt with by Dr. Pullin, the Siduaouth Medical-officer of Health) was infant mortality and its causes. At Siduaouth the rate was equal to 57 per 1,000. Though not so serious as in ...

... infant mortality. Six hundred thousand children, are insured, and we all know the purpose to which it Is put. They are so many coffin clubs for providing funeral pomps for the poor little innocents who arc 60 put away. But when it comes, as is often the ...

... Coroner. The Select Committee of the House of Lords yesterday took the evidence of several coroners on tbe subject of infant mortality and insurance. Mr. Carter, who had been for twenty-two years coroner of the Forest of Dean Division of Gloucestershire ...

... children under one year of age. At that time the infant mortality was 156 per thousand children of the population, it being a little over the general average in England. In the following year the mortality dropped to 109, the lowest point yet reached. As ...

... Quarter at Nevreaedra Kr. W. Digby Seymour, Q.C., the Recorder, said that nine mouths ago be reared to the question ot infant mortality, and suggested that something should be does on the subject by the Legislature. but remarks were not intended in say ...

... highest death-rate daring the fame period being 14 and the lowest 11*20 per 1,000. In Tables A yon will notice that the infant mortality has slightly increased, 18 deaths having oocurred nnder the age of five years. Of this number 10 occurred under one year ...

... A PENALTY FOR OVERLAYING. Death from overlaying has contributed so largely to the sum of infant mortality that hardly any suggested remedy can fail to receive due consideration. According to recent reports, there is a prospect of legislative action in ...

... quinquennial periods were :—births 29'6, 281, 271 ; deaths 181, 162, and 15'8—both rates showing a steady decrease. The infant mortality per cent, of births has decreased from 13'2 to 10 7 in the ims period ; and the zvrootic rate per cent, of deaths has ...

... twelve and one. The apologists of infantile insurance never hesitate to assert that this practice has no effect upon infant mortality. The value of such complacent aaaertions iv, however, considerably diminished by the publicity which the Society for ...

... of hea th tor Leek gave statistics shewing that when the burial discontinued the of insuring under twelve mooths old, infant mortality tell off, and that when the was taken op by insurance com- panies the mortali ere never yet wasa oy bat something mi ...

... If he had seen it before be did not think he could have prolonged its life.—The Coroner remarked that the increase of infant mortality rendered it necessary that inquiry should be made into the cause of death under circumstances each as thew—The jury returned ...