... INFANT MORTALITY. DEPUTATION TO MR. ASQUITH. Replying to deputation from the Parliamentary Committee of the British Medical Association to-day, Mr. Asquith said that though riecplv regretted the great increase in large towns of infant mortality, the ...

... the total infant mortality was regi«tere ia* due premature birth. This i* greatly in exceu what the fatality from this cau*a usually in Coventry or elsewhere. Under normal conditions it extremely improbable that such a proportion of infant* c-one into ...

... Starch Poisoning has been said, on good authority, be the main cause of infant mortality. farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously malted. Horlick's Malted Milk is cow's fresh ...

... STasch has been said, on good authority, the main cause infant mortality. farinaceous food should be to a child till has a full mouth teeth, unless such food has been previously malted. Horlick's Malted Milk cow's fresh milk combined with wheat and barley ...

... representing a death-rate of 17 9 per 1,000. The total number of deaths of infants under one year of age was 28, or nearly a quarter of the total number of deaths. The rate of infant mortality was equal to 140 per 1,000, against 153 in 1891. the course of his ...

... to receive committee the International Arbitration and Peace Association to discuss the Transvaal question. To check infant mortality the Limehouse District Board Works have recommended that a lady officer appointed, whoso duty it will look site* infanta ...

... regard to the infant deaths, the sanitary condition of premises was found to be good in 55 instances, fairly good in three instances, and not satisfactory in three instances, and so far as the inference that the high rate of infant mortality which has prevailed ...

... workhouse. He thought something was radically wrong with regard to the HIGH RATE OF INFANT MORTALITY, no less than one-fourth the deaths in the borough being among infants under 12 months of age. With respect to insanitary dwellings, many of the houses in ...

... per thousand. This high-rate was due to the prevalence of lung diseases during tbe recent severe weather. The rate of infant mortality was also very high. Births during the quarter numbered 87, as against hist year. ...

... from the County Council, calling attention to the excessive death-rate particularly regards infants—in the district, it being st tted that the infant mortality in Colon was higher than any other district in the county.—lt wss resolved take immediate steps ...

... position to say the aooual death-rate 131, which was smaller any year except oue. The zymotic death-rate was *46, the infant mortality *sl.—The Chairman commented upon the gratifying suiafactory nature of the report, and Dr. Wilson, ia reply to Mr. Bagshaw ...

... four deat the Meriden district last year, and the affected were Foleshill, Nuneaton, Warwick, and Solihull. The rate of infant mortality has been much the same in the county for the last three years It was highest in Nuneaton, and excessive in Atherstone ...