... DECREASE IN INFANT MORTALITY. The quarterly return of births, marriages, and deaths, issued by the Registrar General recently, shows that during the three months ended June 30 last 306,037 births and 160,895 deaths were registered in the United Kingdom ...

... bye laws is recommended. The total number of deaths at all ages amounted to 44, giving a death rate per 1,000 at 14. Infant mortality was 5. The birth rate works out at •_2l per 1,000. To . F4 COUNCIL. The monthly meeting of the Llandovery Town Council ...

... year, five were of children under one year of age. This gives the high infant mortality of 195 per 1.000 births, as compared with 78.4 for the previous year. One of the fire infants. however, died, owing to premature birth, and only lived a few hours. ...

... year, and on reference to I the table dealing with infant mortality did not show that much could have been done by so-called preventible measures in lessening the rate of mortality. The rate of mortality from the different causes, Dr Rees gave as follows: ...

... the land. But, in speaking of the children's wrongs and sufferings, she . could not avoid alluding to the appalling infant mortality in England and Wales, which was at last aromaing public attention. Such an awful deathrate could only be called a wholesale ...

... has risen from 20.3 in 19336 to 25.0 in 1907. There were three deaths of children under one year of age, which gives an infant mortality of 44.1 per 1000 births registered for 1907, as compared with 29 4 for 1906. An analysis of the causes of death chews ...

... general s mit.iry condition of the district was satisfactory. table mortality shows from scarlet lever, was generally very mild type. Diphtheria was accountable fur 2 deaths in infants under two years. The infected districts were visited and disiufe> tiuo ...

... the decennial average, and has only been once lower for many years past. Deaths of three infants under one year of age were registered, giving an infantile mortality of 111 per thousand births, and is about the average of the district. Of these, however ...

... taken by a nursing mother, give rises in a few hours to the most alarming symptoms in an infant, and I have frequently had occasion to examine the bodies of infants whose deaths were clearly traceable to the direct effects of the alcohol imbibed at the ...

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