... INFANT MORTALITY IN CHESHIRE REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER. c — The report of the medical officer of health for heshire has just been Alluding to the high rate of infant m ity, Dr. Vacher says, there is no doubt that most of this mortality is preventable ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN CHESHIRE. REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER. C J The report of the medical officer of health, for + eshire has just been ublished. Alluding ‘te th high rate of infant morta ity, Dr. Vecher says, there 18 ho doubt that most of this mortality ...

... FACTORY WORK AND INFANT MORTALITY. THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN*. Yesterday deputation from the Parliamentary Bills Committee of the British Medical Association waited on the Home Secretary, London, to lay before him representations concerning the excessive ...

... FACTORY WORK AND INFANT MORTALITY. THE EMi'JLO Y T WOMRN. On Wednesday a deputation from the Parliamentary Bills Committee of the British Medical Association waited on the Home Secretary, in Condon, to lay before him representations concerning the excessive ...

... Infant Mortality.— Testerday, the con cluaiun of inquest, held Chelsea, tlie liody Margaret Daly, aged foar months, the child a which died from suffocation from overlaying, the Coroner (Mr. C. L. Drew) remarked was one of those cases which they had many ...

... with regard to what they eall the base and banefal practice cf infusing steam into weaving sheds. They ascribe the heavy infant mortality so prevalent in large towns to the practice of damping, and they urge a modification of the system. ...

... of 3'B per 1,000. Tho two deaths occurred at the respective ages of 79 and years. No death from zymotic diseases, and infant mortality. Average death-rate for the last five years, 11*6 per 1,000. The lowest death-rates in the county of Durham in 1392 ...

... same cause as infant mortality, and 1 ” cause of it, it may be urged that the employu ree. day married women ia at tle root of the infant mortality rates. Obviously, both the re centage of married ard widowed wome: oo and the infant ...

... first was Dr. Thompson, of Oldham, who expressed the opinion that this insurance had an exceedingly prejudicial effect on infant mortality. said he had come in contact with cases in which medical aid was not summoned until the child was beyond hope of recovery ...

... Medical Association, yesterday, waited upon Mr. Asquith. to urge the necessity for legislation with a view lessening infant mortality, preventing mothers working in factories for a certain period. The deputation also sought to have the deaths properly ...

... rather of the ; the fatilt lies with the disposition plover or the officials. . The factory system also blamed a the high infant mortality in the cotton manufacturing towns Lancashire. * efe system indeed ! How many married ° . employed in cotton mills and ...

... buildings who were removed to hospitals, was 1819 per 1,000, which is 321 per 1.000 below the average of London. The infant mortality was 13367 in each 1,000 births, or 2033 below that of London ...