... has riseu from 20'8 in 1906 to 25.5 iu 1907. There were three deaths of childreu under one year of age, which give au infant mortality of 44.1 per 1.000 births registered for 1907 as compared with 29'4 for 1906. An analysis of the causes of death shows ...

... 1907. There were two deaths only of children under ens year of age, a decrease of three on the previous year, and the infant mortality has been reduced from 125 per 1000 births registered for 1907 to 40 8 for 1906. Of the two infantile deaths one was due ...

... as compared with 25 . 5 for 1907. There were nine deaths of children under one year of age, which gives the very high infant mortality of 120 per 1,000 births registered, as compared with 44 . 1 for 1907. Nearly one half, however, occurred in children ...

... town. Of this number, however. several did not really belong to the district, but came with the last hope of recovery. Infant mortality was also rather high during 1988. children under one year of age died, which gave a rate of 150 per thousand as against ...

... deaths were sixtytwo, makinc a rate of 19 . 1. The rats of infant mortality, under one year, was 205 to 1,000 births. This rate compares very unfavourably with that of 1899, when infant mortality was 98 to a thousand births but, in order to prevent nth ...

... Admiral has, it is slated received already 12,000 letters announcing that as many children have been named ♦fter hint. Infant mortality will probably amount for a large number of these, but amongst such a number at least one should got pretty pew to the ...

... of the previous year, and reference to the table dealing with infant mortality does not show that much could have been done by so•called preventible measures in lemseolog the rate of mortality. The Notification of Births Act has not been adopted by the ...

... should be begun at the beginning. The King and Queen have consented to become patrons of a conference on the subject of infant mortality which will be held at Westminster on June 13th and 14th. Among the subjects to be discussed will be suggested measures ...

... attention. The urban, compared with the rural, death-rate has advanced from 114 to 118, au increase of four per cent. Infant mortality under one year of age has risen to 163 per 1,000 registered births from 141. These are disquieting facts when one thinks ...

... feeding non-combatants, and when the methods of barbarism, which are traditional in Boer nurseries, led to wholesale infant mortality, Mr Birrell, now the occupant of a most important post in the Ministry, one which above all others needs sanity and ...

... works out at 16.34 per thousand, which is about the average for the district. The number of infante dying under one year of age was 5, which gives an infant mortality of exactly 100 per thousand births registered. One of these does not properly belong to ...

... small hchlings movement. and at a sale at Old bake the s‘erage price obtained was £7O an acre. With the view of reducing infant mortality, the St. Pancra. Bocouith Council hue decided to to the father, or failing hini. to the doctor, midwife. medical eiclent ...