... infant Mortality f Doit great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due . epidemic diarrhoea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous deanliaess of all utensils used is ' -ati’ but The Practitumrr writes: C know better Feeder; simple, e*qr to keep ia order ...

... tioi that they were designed for the pur po; of massacre. Unfortunately, the mobility in these camps, and especially the infant mortality, is extremely heavy, but this is due to circumstances over which the military authorities have no t very much control ...

... kingdom are willing to join in an appeal to Parliament on the subloot. The great district of Camberwell itself, where infant mortality has for some time been mys- teriously high, is being flooded by the Vestry with warnings against this hitherto popular ...

... consumption to the healthi- ness of milch cows iIf the county, and the fact that infant mortality was lower in urban than in rural districts to the boiling of milk given to infants in the urban districts. POLLING DISTRICTS CHANGED. The Polling Districts Committee ...

... one death in childhood, —under the age of one year. There had been afew cases of dyptheria.— Dr Snow reported a higher infant mortality than usual. Twelve died in infancy under one year of age. There had been many cases of measles Caersws, ' and an outbreak ...

... and the death-rate 17'20 per thousand. The latter shows a saving of nearly ninety lives as compared with the year 1893. infant mortality throughout the county, according to the report, shows a decided improvement, especially in some districts. The highest ...

... proportion varies considerably, however, in the different districts, and we note that Burnley and Blackburn, where the rate infant, mortality is highest, employ the hugest number of married women. The report profitsharing shows that headway is being made in this ...

... pursuits. Both in Carnarvonshire and Merioneth it was noticeable that infant mortality in the coast towns was above the average. Could that be due to the artificial feeding of infants because the mothers during the summer months were too busy attending ...

... home were to continue to owing the old Unee. Bat many qneationo wars damaoriog for solution —drunkenness, bad honsing, infant mortality, ignorance—all demanding treatment more stern than Mr long and hit friends woold employ. The day for talk about social ...

... birth rate for the year has accordingly been 21*9 per thousand. The number of births last year were 191. Infant Mortality. —The rate of infant mortality measured by the proportion of deaths of children under one year of age per thousand born was 1341. In ...

... a very low condition. Overcrowding, insanitation, ignorance, laziness, drink and unemployment are the chief causes of infant mortality, and the attempt to make Hygiene and Temperance compulsory subjects in elementary Schools should produce a change later ...

... under one year of age, and 49 or 46'2 per cent, of persona aged 60 years and upwards. The low proportion borne by the infant mortality to the general death rate ia highly favourable indication of the oiroumstanoes affecting health in childhood throughout ...