... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... week, 103. Total since January Ist, 20.17. ISTARCH POISONiNGo has been said, on good authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... before the Royal Commis- sion that 800 deaths had occurred from vaccina- tion. and that there wvas a marked increase in infant mortality from certain fliseases after the passing of the Vaccination Act. He said also that medical men admitted that 1,069 children ...

... urged that the luse of tinned separated milk was not only worthless, but injurious for children, and seriously inreased infant mortality. Mr Long, in reply, could not promise in his Food and Drugs Bill to eompel the words tun- suitable for children or adults' ...

... 18:18, 15; 1889, 147. I am norry I to cannot State fully tbs mortality from all causes lit a-different periods of life, but the following table is eOf- bs ficient to show that the infant mortality. is Still very it high h ut it is eguelly Satisfactory to ...

... on of deaths according to age is the extra- ordinary mortality amongst infants. The deaths under one year of age numbered 3,141, and were in the propor- tion of 198 per 1,000 births. No such infant death-rate I as this has been recorded in Birmingham ...

... witirin six months after she jm? had givin birth to a child. ?He quoted a number of statistics to prove that the rate of infant mortality was always greater to the counties ? where a large number of married women worked PCI at a trade ofi Mr. Howard (Sheffield) ...

... gives a death-rate rned o of 15.10 per 1,000 per annum. Of the whole mortality, 21 IIaat de tdths occurrsd to persons under five yeaxs of age, which is equivalent to an infant mortality of 5.01 per 1,000 per s anuum. The number of births registered darirro ...

... deaths included 36 of infants aged under one year, and 36 persons aged upwards of sixty years. The deaths of infants showed a slight decline, while thoee elderly persons exeeeded recorded in any recent week. The annual rate of mortality from all causes per ...

... deaths included 34 infants imder one year age, and persons aged upward* or sixty years; the death* of infants showed a decline, while those elderly person* exceeded those recorded in the preceding aaeek. The annual rate of mortality from all causes per ...

... Infirmary. deaths included >f infants uoder one year age, and cf aged upwards of sixtv year*. The deaths infants ahowed increase, whiie those elderly persons corresp«jnded with the number the preceding week. Tha annual rate mortality from all cnases per 1,000 ...