... 000 births or less, there was a clear call to endeavour to lessen the heavy loss of infant lives which took piece in Wales and Monmouthshire. The mortality among infants depended to a great extent upon the midwifery of • country, upon the way the children ...

... district. a death rate of about 44 per thousand of the population per annum. This high death rate was occasioned by mortality among infant life and the old and nitiriu. There bad been ono death from influenza and one death from diptheria. The latter mewed ...

... death rate for the whole of England and for 1905 of 167. The analysis of deaths shows that 18 infants died under the age of one, giving rat© of infantile mortality 113*9 per 1000 births, which is comparat.vely satisfactory, for six of them were either premature ...

... average of the last ten years. The marriages numbered • 269,734, or 1541 per 1,000—03 below the previous year. The mortality among infants under one year was the cats of 133 per 1,000, five more than in 1906. but 14 lower than the tea years’ average- The ...

... lowest for the last seven years. The infantile mortality appeared to be abnormally high for the distriet, but cia of the infants were either prematurely born or died of congenital defects, and thir high mortality could net be ascribed either to insanitary ...

... feeding. Efforts were now being made in many districts to limit infantile mortality by visits to mothers of newborn infants, and by eudeavoars to improve the conditions affecting infant life. The following were the chief measures by which improvement can be ...

... young mothers in the principles infant hygiene. It is astonishing, says the Doctor, bow ignorant these persons are of the first principles ot feeding infanta, and to this fact he ascribes the cause ot much infantile mortality. Convulsions, stomach derangement ...

... end in a spirited manner. Too much credit cannot be awardea to Mr and Mrs Tipping of the mixed school, and Miss Evans of the infant school, and their assistants for the remarkable talent displayed by their pupils. The proceeds of the entertainment go towards ...

... wring iii institution being reisterril at Criekhouell.-Infantile Mortality of deaths among infants under 12 months i.ge amounted to 18. The to what extent erre thee. IS deaths infants preventilile. Three deaths were ascribed to inflamatory affection* ...

... years and upwards. The number ol births during the year was 174 against 177, which was equal to a rate of 35*77. Tbe'infant mortality was oonsidsrably less than in 1698. Deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs—six—were teas than in almost any year ...

... Society’s Depositary, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster. [All Rights Reserved.] The following extracts will speak for themselves “Infant children come into our hands for religious teaching very early. In towns, especially, parents send them not only the week ...

... 1013 days as against 916, and the number of deaths was 7 , 678, being 956 more than in 1889. The increased sickness and mortality experienced is largely attributed to the influenza epidemic. PoraitAe legislation on the subject of old age pension schemes ...