... INFANT MORTALITY. FOURTH EDITION. TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. DEPUTATION TO THE SECRETARY. A deputation from the British Medical Association to-day waited upon Mr. Asquith to urge the necessity for legislation with a view to lessening infant mortality preventing ...

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

... INFANT MORTALITY AT CHELTENHAM. Two inquests were held on Tuesday afternoon by Mr. E. W. Coren, the first of which was concerning the infant child of John Leaver, farmer. Badgworth. The child, which appeared to have been a healthy one. The evidence of ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AT CHELTENHAM. Two inquests were held on Tuesday afternoon by Mr. E. W. Coren, the first of which was concerning the infant child of John Leaver, farmer, Badgworth. The child, which appeared to have been a healthy one. The evidence of ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AT CHELTENHAM. TWO INQUESTS. Two inquests were held on Tuesday afternoon Mr. E. AY. Coren, tho first of which was concerning the infant child John Leaver, farmer, The child, which appeared to have been healthy one, slept with her parents ...

... small infant mortality this year. 151 infants died under one year of age during the year compared 215 the preceding year. The infant mortality then will 125-0 per thousand now. compared with over 160 per thousand in y.-ar I. •fore. This is ...

... and Kingsholm 2.5 p:r 1000. The infant mortality of children under one year of age is 122 , 7, which is much below that of the preceding year and below that generally found in cities of this kind. The infant mortality is reckoned per 1,000 of those bom ...

... Secretary with reference to infant mortality in the Potteries were discussed, and the following resolution was passed:—That, while admitting the importance of Dr. enquiry into the causes of the excessive mortality of infant children the Potteries and ...

... Mincbiuhampfcon had tha lowest, and Cheltenham, Frampton, and Horsley had the highest proportions of infant mortality ; and ia the 67 towns the infant mortality last quarter was 171, and was 45 more than that the city and 195 less than in the rural district ...

... three quarters of the year. The infant mortality last quarter was 113 per 1,000 births, against 96 the preceding quarter; and the deaths of elderly persons numbered 51, and showed an increase of 22. The zymotic mortality, M'hich had been 19, 09, and 08 ...

... four quarters; while the deathrate was 18'6, as compared with 15T, 25'6, 16’8, and 17T in the same four quarters. The infant mortality last quarter was 197, and showed an increase of 17 per 1,000 births; while the deaths of elderly persons numbered 54 ...

... employmentof women. Mr. Mundella, M.P., presided. Dr. Fatham, medical officer of health for Manchester, said that the rate of infant mortality per thousand children bora was in Preston 220. Blackburn 191, Salford 183, Manchester 178, and Oldham 171. The principal ...