... INFANT MORTALITY AT CARDIFF, Dd A HIGH. DEATW-RATE. rs r- The. Cardiff Health committee bad not such to a happy task as usual on Tuesday morning. when the nmedical officer of health (Dr. E. Wal- un ford) presented his report for the month, in 3y the course ...

... . INFANT MORTALITY IN: - CARDIFF. - I I f AN ALARMI.Q STATE OF AFFAIRS DEATHS NUMBER 50 PER CENT. OF THE TOTAL DEATH-RATE. At a meeting of the Cardiff Buriail Board, held on Tuesday, under the presidency of Coun- cillor W. J. Trounce, it was, incidentally ...

... tahat other of infant mortality. ?? crematoriumt seems to be as d an, a l ever, and the present generation of burial I hoard snembers, appardntly, must pass away s if bef ore its f oundation is laid., On the. ques- r tion of infant mortality, some knd of ...

... figures relative to infantile mortality toll a grim, sad tale when they are ques- tioned to the uttermost, Where infantile mortality is highest, morality, in certain of its phases, is lowest. Above a certain per- centage, infants die only because they are ...

... Monday, Pla who urged that the use of tinned separated Thz milk was injurious for children, and seriously to increased infant mortality. Mr. Long, in reply, recognized the desirability of ensuring gol that the public should know what they were oui buying ...

... question in his annual report. Dealing with t the high rate of infant mortality, he says that t mothers are lamentably ignorant of the most ( elementary rules for the rearing and feeding I of infants, and this accounts for such a high r death-roll from convulsions ...

... were typhoid fever, man of which seventeen cases occurred, and Soul diphtheria, which was responsible for forty- el one. Infant mortality, which during the hanc summer months and up to the end of perh September was very prevalent, has shown i .tendeney to ...

... population. Sijt deaths were tire result of infantile diarrhoea, two were oue to old age, and two to ,Accidents. The infant mortality was exc:-p itonally high, being fourten out of a total of nineteen deaths. There were no deaths under the group of infectious ...

... go ' vs INFANT MORTALITY. ind- for At 'tile usual weekly Sloe Rgibbon mneeting -held en, at tie Sti't'rt-hlral, Cardiff, on Saturday night, Mr. ike Devid Shepherd presiding, Mr. Percy Thomas 'eel spoke oti tire 'aubjoct of infant mortality and' its lad ...

... average of the 33 towns. Out of th these33 large tosweis there were 22 wles a higher asf rlte of infant mortality than Cardiff. IUn- wl decioedly, infant mortality was influenced by ye insamitary conditions, which act powerfully ill fr 6ie hot iveather. The ...

... andpatt sanitiry comnritrec is end Dr. WHlforr (in ires report to that committee, wiiel was nrow presented) said thi ie infant mortality iu the parisir of Roalli, as merisuree e by the proportion of deatihs under one yearrof age ih to 1000 birthr during ...

... no doubt the practice of such societies does tend - and must tend - to increase infant mortality. , A WEasu AnTuosITY. Dr. Magee also quoted in his-speech agsinct infant insurance the opinion of Mr. 1lowel Cuthbertson; the coroner for Neath, South' Wales ...