... excess of infant mortality. (Hear, hear.) Dr. Alfred Hill, in his last annual report, stated that the deaths of children under one year were 27 per cent. of the whole number, and of children between one year and five years 55 per cent. (Oh.) Our infant mor ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY IN 3 BIRMINGHAM. ?? Health Committee, in their report to the next imeeting of the City Council, embody a summary of the a special report made a short time back by Dr. Alfred Hill I on the subject of infantile mortality in Birmingham ...

... buildings who were removed to hospitals, was 16'49 per 1,000, which is 0'96 per 1,000 below the average of London. The infant mortality was 126'57 in each 1,000 births, or 1474 below that of London. The actual number of births and deaths are from returns ...

... as'amnongst some f the most pressing reforms improvedt sanitary conditions, the question of infant mortality andt the ipreid of better knowledge of the condition of 0 infant life, and the more intelligent care of the children t that were born. The community should ...

... past month thre were 88 births and 46 deaths, which were equal to a rate of increase of 38-5 and a mortality of 20-1 per thousand. The infant mortality amounted to 12 2 per thousand, but the whole death-rate was the lowest that had been recorded since ...

... frequently had to condemn parents for the way in which they fed and treated their voung children, and he believed the rate of infant mortality would be much reduced by the spread of information among inexperienced people.- After some discussion, Mr. Jenner Fust ...

... m oe gratifying to te ae to generally. W.H. BA&GLEY. Aston, January 6. OU7R INFANT MORTALITY. To ghe ].Drron of the DAiY POST. Sir,-The discussion in the Council on the infant death rate in Brminghe M will, I hope, lead toyurthe rgitoa- tion until the ...

... The average annual mortality between 1862-66 was 30 06 per 1,000- it decreased to an average of 27-7 between 1883-87, and to 25 6 in 1889. 3Thisimprovement is specially apparent in the better Spreservation of infant life. The mortality of children . under ...

... unadvisable to attempt to complete the transaction without the advice of a solicitor. Anxious, Aston.-On the contrary, the infant mortality is greater in proportion amongst the poorer than the richer classes. J. liL, Sutton Coldfield.-No law, and we believe ...

... point owing to aninfluenz~aepidemic. Theireport .exaplained that an outbreak of measles had :caused uS' the' incease in infant mortality, while the little rise -in is. the third anarter was due to infantile diarrhoura- As to Ce the heailth of the city going ...

... more rigor- aous adoption of preventive measures. The proportion of deaths of infants in the first year of life to registered hirtbs, or what is commonly konas the infant mortality, was 144 per 1,000., wihi slightly above the average of the last ten ~n years ...

... out, much the same alf over the country; the infants died in virtually undiminished proportion, although the older children and the adults showed. a marked lengthening of life. How great is the infant mortality may be seen at a glance from a single line ...