... Infant Mortality. The number of deaths under 5 years was 12, being the rate of 2-2 per 1000 per annum as compared with 3*4 the preceding year. The proportion of deaths of infants under one year of age to registered births in 1895 was at. the rate of 82 ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. There has been of late a great increase of enthusiasm among local authorities in the direction of attempting to diminish infant mortality. With this object milk depots have been established, lady inspectors •p--pointed, and various ...

... old age mortality is much higher than it has been fur many years. Among infants under one, 19 deaths occurred, being at the rate of 97 per thousand births registered. This compares favourably with the previous year, when the infant mortality was 120 per ...

... of leaving their babies in the care of young children, and the result is that Acton has a higher average rate of infant mortality than soy town in the county. The proposal is one of tbe provisions of the Acton Improvement, which came before a Select Committee ...

... diseases, 15; various other causes, 69. INFANT MORTALITY. The number of deaths under 5 years of age was 41, being at the rate of 4 2 per 1,000 per annum, compared with 4-4 lor the previous year. The mortality in infants under oae year ...

... that inquests were held: at Bterstry , on Tuesday on eight infants who were autocated while in bed with their parents has spin drawn attention to the clause dealing with thisform of infant mortality in the new Children's. Act, which comes into force on April ...

... the heaviest mortality has been from diseases of the lungs sod heart, and from cancer. Sixteen from the disease of the ?urge, sir of which were from phthisie, nine Jying from diseases of the heart, and four from cancer. The infant mortality is a low one ...

... Wales. The rate of infant mortality in the county is particularly striking. Since 1893 it has increased from 130.1 per 1,000 to 17.4 per 1,000, taking the average for the whole county. But in Festiniog the rate of infant mortality for the year was no ...

... Exchequer has heart: hut they regonise that liberty is the condition under which alone they can help effectively. The roll of infant mortality in Glanmorgan shire, the drink and the vice which are not less in Wales than in other parts of the United Kingdom, must ...

... 5 15 5 15 25 5 25 “ 11 65 It 50 65 and upwards 60 The mortality amongst persons over 65 years is at the rate of 473 per 1,000 deaths registered. INFANT MORTALITY. Among infanta under one year, 23 deaths occurred ; this gives the rate ...

... upon matters of state medicine, both of a generil and special , character, including the control of the milk supply, infant mortality and its prevention, infecticus diseises, and sanitaticn in schools. food poisoning, housing, water supplies, and the ...

... of 15*4 ;and 2rl per 1,000 per annum. The infant (mortality during the same period was 6, being :in the proportion of: 120 deaths 1,000 births of persons 65 years of age and upwards 12idied, giving a mortality of 5'1 per 1,000 per annum, or one third the ...