... more sanitary. Dr. J. M. Rhodes read a paper infant mortality. He said that there was a close relationship between a high infantile mortality and a high birth-rate, while a low ratio of infantile mortality was associated with a high ratio of education ...

... A PENALTY FOR OVERLAYING. Death from overlaying has contributed so largely to the sum of infant mortality that hardly any suggested remedy can fail to receive due consideration. According to recent reports, there is a prospect of legislative action in ...

... population. The deaths of children under one year age totalled 154, which is also a much smaller number than usual, the infant mortality working out at 111.7 per 1.000 born, as compared with an average of 144.8 for the ten previous years. The figures for ...

... Winchcomb had the lowest, and Cht ltenlnfii Stonehouso. Uisloy. and Frampton had thu proportions of infant mortality. eldeily |>er.sons the rate mortality had geoomily iisf-n slightly last quarter, the 43deaths in (he City showing increat-e of 3, but being ...

... 6le .to confessed that the statistics they th» a* I nely queer on the surface. infant mortality in the worthies ery care is theoretically ligh * “ptoers and their infants, be than, it is in the LondonT But wo had better figures. The London infantile felt ...

... 16.8 in Cirencester. Among the 152 deaths last quarter in Gloucester tliene were 28 infants under one year of age and 54 of persons aged 60 years or upwards. The infant deatJift were in the proportion of 79 per 1,000 'births registered during the same ...

... the doctor unless there is sufficient money in the house to pay his fee on the spot. What lot of rubbish men write re infant mortality! What tons of advice they give to mothers And yet when all this fine sentiment and anxious concern for the race is put ...

... In the ) 67 towns the infant mortality averaged 140T 48 , more than that for Gloucester. No death at these ages were recorded Hares field and Duraley, and , among the other districts of the table the lowest pro; portions of infant deaths occurred iu Bisley ...

... army corps, Referring to the overcrowding of cities, the President remarks that the death-rate a terrible especially in infant mortality, in overcrowded tenements, not mereiy in crowded _—¥ of high buildings in New York and There should be but in t severe ...

... county. The death-ra’e vrae 15’87 the urban districts and 14 7 in the rural districts, or 14*97 for the whole county. The infant mortality had been 135 7 per 1,000 bora in the urban districts and 93‘2 in the rural, and throughout the county 110*9. The from ...

... permitted to suckle their infants. Depots for prepared milk in the hands of Corporations counteracted the high infant mortality, but valuable as these institutions were, nothing could take the piece Nature'o own food for infants. IRISH LABOURERS' BILL DROPPED ...

... and Bisley had the lowest, and Cheltenham, Charlton Kings, Harcsfield, and Painswick had the highest proportions of infant mortality. The deaths of adults in the city were 62, as against 55, and in the rural 40 —22. The zymotic death-rate in the city ...