... towns. It is worthy of notice, too, that as the mortality for the last fourteen years, averages only 17-7 per 1,000 living, it is evident that the health of the district is not improving. The infant mortality is at the rate of 129 per 1,000 births, which ...

... towns. It is worthy of notice, too, that as the mortality for the last fourteen years, averages only 17-7 per 1,000 living, it is evident that the health of the district is not improving. The infant mortality is at the rate of 129 per 1,000 births, which ...

... had weekly death-rates as high a:s 43 per thousand, and ] others have followel with figures not so Mgh. ' The excessive infant mortality, which pre- j vails more or less in all manufacturing towns, , but is particularly felt throughout Lancashire, « prevents ...

... condition. Had it yet redeemed its name? Let them think how lamentably behind-hand were nearly all its departments. Its infant mortality was a social crime. There were consequently tremendous arrears of work. Could the present Board, he asked, as now constituted ...

... occurred in children under one year old, a death-rate of 9195 per 1,000 births registered, showing a satisfactory decline in infant mortality. Last year the infantile death-rate was 240 per 1,000. Eighteen of the 68 deaths occurred in persons over 65 years of ...

... with regard to what they call the base and baneful practice of 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. THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR ...

... excessive infant mortality Huddersfield would stand even better than at present as regards the death rate. When such cruel neglect as that shown in evidence before the district coroner, on Wednesday, to have been going on in the cases of infants, the wonder ...

... had weekly- death-rates as high as 43 per thousand, and others have followed with figures not so high. The excessive infant mortality, which pre- vails more or less in all manufacturing towus, but is particularly felt throughout Lancashire, prevents, ...

... Shoe ?? ?? * 21? The markets closed quietly. ?? Pois ? NIXG has bee n said on good aathoritv i to de the mam 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 ...

... compared with 12*64 for 1897, and 15*12 for 1896. Out of the 118 children born 14 died before the age of one year, being an infant mortality of 118*66, as compared with 91*95 for 1897, and 240 for 1895. Of the general deaths 23 occurred in persons over 65 years ...

... Commission of the Peace. I voted for Mr. C. Hayne's bill upon this subject. 32. I am aware of the frightful amount of infant mortality and disease which, according to very high authorities, is to be attributed to th 9 employment, under existing conditions ...

... many parents and friends of the children. The first part of the programme was taken np by the infants, under the able directorship of Mrs. Brook, the infants' mistress. They performed their dialogues, recitations, and action songs with remarkable precision ...