... aaje:—“Tbit gratifying return include* only one death from the tymotie disease*. This, taken in conjunction with the low infant mortality, the low death rate, and the eomparatire freedom from epidemic ■icknem, all attest the corresponding improvement in the ...

... 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 ...

... river Siour at Ashford, Kent, anxiety. 12 out of persons in the cottages have been attacked. Owing to the great heat the infant mortality for the past is highest on record. ...

... and Shepton Mallet had the lowest, and Road and Midsower Norton had the highest proportions of infant mortality. In the 67 towns the rate of infant mortality last quarter was 249, and in the whole conntry it was per 1,000 births ; these rates having been ...

... to his identity. - - INFANT MORTALITY. DEPUTATION TO MR A9QUITH. A& deputation from the Dritish MUelic. Atrocition on TuetdaY waited upon Mr Asquith to urge the necet. sity for legielation with a vlew to leskening infant mortality by prevwntinomothc r ...

... the British Medical Association to-day waited upon Mr. Asquith to urge the nooseior legislation with a view to lemming infant mortality, by preventing mothers from woriting in tactories for a certain period.—Mr. Asquith promised to give all the representations ...

... to Mr Asquith that the alleged increase of in~fant bmortaitywadadtetO theemploymliot of married womnen in factories, contends that nol constant relation has been established between the late of infant mortality in different towna and the proporon of married ...

... i6 of infants under one year ¢ TY ar. Ft ee The infant de is were the } portion of 12¢ per 1,000 Lirths regis red, as Compared with 19 in the previous quarter and 135 in the In the rura sponding quarter ot last year. districts the infant mortality showed ...

... apparent; first that certain towns the infant mortality was abnormally high; and secondly, that the towns in which the highest mortality prevailed were mostly situate in the north of Staffordshire. The high infant mortality the north of the ...

... death-rate 17*88. The illegitimate birthrate was per cent of births, and the illegitimate death-rate I*o7 per cent births. Infant mortality was again above ...

... urged that the use of •tinned separated milk was not only worthless but injurious for children, and seriously increased infant mortality. Mr Long, in replying, could not promise in hit Food and Drugs Bill to compel the words Unsuitable for children or adults” ...

... 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 ...