... HIGH DEATH RATE AT ABERDARE. ALARMING INFANT MORTALITY. At the Aberdare Urban District Council yes- terday, Mr D. P. Davies, J.P., in the chair, the medical officer of health (DrD. Davies. J.P.), in his quarterly report, stated that the namber of deaths ...

... Several well-known pentlemen have promised to attend and speak upon the several phases of the general question, including infant mortality, child insurance, lack of parental re- sponsibility, and the need for the physical and moral education of neglected poor ...

... Walford, medicinl officer of health for the county borough of Cardiff, lectured on Infant Mortality and the Rearing of Children. In his opmion infanbile mortality formed a good teat of the sanitary condition of a district. The causes of death among ...

... during the previous quar- ter being 132. Zymotic diseases were respon- sible for 56 fatalities, and there was a very high infant mortality, the deaths of children under one year of age being 123. This was unprece- dented in hie experience, the chief causes ...

... during the previous quar- ter being 13'2. Zymotic diseases were respon- sible for 56 fatalities, and there was a very high infant mortality, the deaths of children under one year of age being 123. This was unprece- dented in his experience, the chief causes ...

... not think, he said, it was the intention of those who framed the tariff to put any obstacles in the way of checking infant mortality. At the same time the law of the United States does not think it safe for scientific appliances which have been imported ...

... I. was unable to walk when he was five years old, and was always in after life weak on his feet. The amazing rate of infant mortality in former times was largely due to this custom, by which the arms were fastened to ths sides, and the legs stretched ...

... He proposed tbat they proceed to the next business which was done.- The Mayor made further reference to the matter of infant mortality in Cardiff, mentioning two cases in which two or three children in the same families dipd within a few days (If each ...

... of 21,000. The average death rate is found to be 30.3 per 1,000, compared with 21.2 for the rest of the borough. The infant mortality reaches 239.2 per 1,000 births, as ajfainst 168,3 for the rest of the borough, and 150 in the large tgwnsofenitiand. ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN CARDIFF. NOT WORSE THAN OTHER TOWNS. The attention of the Cardiff Health Com- mittee being called to the question of the great infantile mortality in Cardiff western district, the Medical Officer stated at a meeting of that body on ...

... INFANT LIFE. i At a meeting of the Royal Statistical society in London Dr. Hugh R. Jones, of Liverpool, reitd his prize easay on The Perils and Protec- tion of Infant Life. He said the chief causes of excessive infant mortality were found to depend upon—(1) ...

... has an infant mortality as low as 142 per 1,000, and consequently Cardiff, which is free from this great cause of infant mortality, oughb to stand in a very much better relative position. It has been deinonsbrabed that a high rate among ...