... for the laat five years had been - 57, showing 8?. Thetjtal uumb?r of deaths wa- If, making death rate of 10*24. The infant mortality vswA per 1.000 b r:hp. The wa*er supply bad con! inued highly Thesewers had been maintained in working Oder, and the ...

... The national birth-rate was 29-2t>, the na. ionai death-rate 18 3, the national zymotic disease death-rate 219, and the infant mortality per 1,000 birth*. The vi dry summer had caused almost water famine the district, where the wells were shallow, and where ...

... deaths of infants under 12 months. There were nine cases of notifiable disease, with one death, all being scarlet fever. The zymotic deathrate was 58. One death occurred from cancer, but none from phthisis. The absence of any infant mortality, together ...

... good in the presence of epidemic fever The infant death-rate of per 1,000 registered births ia excellent, and cintrasts well with a four-year average of 1144. The present condition of local infant mortality stands in pleasing contrast with the circumstances ...

... a heated argument the matter was dropped.—ln reply to an enquiry from the County Council respecting the high rate of infant mortality, Dr. Gooding attributed it to early marriages and weak parents, insanitary surrounding-, improper feeding and use of ...

... non-reßidents), 10 6; average neti death-rata for five years, 11.4 ; death-rate from seven chief epidemic diseases, 01 ; infant mortality per 1,000 births, 83.9 ; numb of inhabited hou-ea in district, 1,819; average number of persons per houae, 4.7. The report ...

... especially to young children, who bad to sit at achool in wet boots. Due precautions had been taken against the cholera. Infant mortality in the Borough was high. Births during the year, 237 ; Deaths 153, the death rate being 19.1 per thousand.—Mr. Narraway ...

... basis was adopted. INFANT MORTALITY. Several the medical officers attributed the large infant mortality improper feeding, and they recommended that leaflets on the subject be distributed —Lord Ebrington said the excessive mortality appeared ...

... and most patient nurses, and thou wonder and bemoan that tbe big girls are *o h and inconsiderate, and that population infant mortality. If h»lf the old dears now the workhouses were given 7s. a week, and their relations encouraged support tnem, under ...

... cases af notifiable disease wore reported him The Medical Officer observed that the infant mortality was extraordinarily large. In answer a question said the mortality was not due to any disease in particular. Mr. Gonorr, the ...

... average was 1 1.6 ; in the group of years. 1902-1904. the average rate was will'not easy to lower this record average. The infant mortality under one year of age was 132.8 per 1,000. In the year 1903 the rate was 87 per 1,000 bofn : the average three years ...

... previous year), and bronchitis, pneumonia and pleurisy 33. For zymotic diseases the death-rate was 1 per thousand, and the infant mortality was 80 for the year. Rainfall was 7in. and Bin. above the average—a very important factor in a district which possessed ...