... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhcea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the contamination ...

... STARTLING INFANT MORTALITY AT GRIMSBY. Set Pearls, 7 Rubles. &c. ...

... TEMPERATURE AND THE . DEATH-RATE, INFANT MORTALITY, Compared with whiar we had peevousy exporienced, lasi week was ealilid obe descnbed #s cool, for the mean tmum at the lfi Otwervatory, Greenwich, ~ was lower that of the preceding seven weeks. But we ...

... 'INFANT DEATH-RATE. SKIRCOAT & POORER WARDS Striking Comparisons. An interesting report has been prepared by Dr. Jas, T. Neech, the Medical Officer O'.Bo.lll{) for Halifax, on the causes of the higher infant mor tality in Akroydon, North, Central, West ...

... eight in 1905), diseases of the heart 9 (contrasted with three in 19038, seven in 1907. nine in 1906, and _six in 1905) infant mortality eight. The last-named is below the average number (8.3) for the previous ten vears. As to zymotic discase, one death ...

... the workhouse, eaving out that of an infant aged-14 days, the average age was T 4 years. Seven deaths were registered under one year, which is equal to an infant mortality of 106.1 per 1,000 births. The infant mortality for the last five ...

... which is equal to a death-rate of 21.6 per 1,000 inhabitants. Fourteen deaths were registered under one vear, giving an infant mortality of 194.4 per 1,000 births registered. The birth-rate was 18 per 1,000 inhabitants. These statistics are decidedly un ...

... but we had also the lowest infant mortality on record. (Applause.) IHe was one who began the agitation about infant mortality seven fears ago. Since that time we had got down the rate from 140 per thousand—which meant one infant in seven was ...

... HOW INFANTS’ FOOD IS MADE. Much public attention has lately been directed to the seriousness of infant mortality in this country. It is agreed that this mortality is largely due to improper feedinfi. And since many mothers, eeflecially when they are also ...

... giving a death-rate of 10.7 pe. thousand per annum, against 10.5 in 1908, and 14 6in 1900. Infant mortality : During the year there have been 24 deaths in infants un&l’ one year, as against 18 during last year, 17 during 1907, and 15 during 1906. Zymotic ...

... just published, he has something to say about the decline of the birth-rate. But as great, or greater, an evil as thisis infant mortality, and Huddersfield and its ex-Mayor have set an example to the country in the interesting experiments which have heen ...

... account of measles, that it was found necessary to close the boys’ National school and the infants’ National school, Manor House-rozd, on June 30 ; Watson’s infant school, West-street, on July 18; and the Wesleyan day schools on July 21. The first two schools ...