... valuable data are anticipated. Mr. Burns noted satisfactory circumstance that during the last five years the rate of infant mortality had dropped from to 109. expressed regret that the Treasury refused to let him legislate for quinquennial census. Finally ...

... Bachelors of Arts recipients Hi! B, ' one a male student. received the Doctor of n?ham medical officer in his °rt states that infant mortality in * is to hi, T h' and he attributes f women employment. Poverty S%B. smallness the husbands* ; t ft the main reason ...

... long neglected, into the government of the country. Among tbe matters decided in Parliament are questions of education, infant mortality, sweated labour, the conditions of women's work, the housing of the poor, the treatment of the poor and of criminals ...

... journal on Friday last after name to which were attached ages nearly ail above) seventy or below six months. Wi'h regard to infant mortality, I cannot fcelp feeling that might be considerably decreased if parents d only attend the oftrep*ated advice to clothe ...

... source, and this more often tha not is in the cow-house and dairy. Ther can be question that impure milk add greatly to infant mortality. Milk is medium in which bacteria readily flourish and precautions are absolutely necessary These can only be secured ...

... contaminated milk supply, 11 had previously reported in • .. J.A numbered 95, and deaths 58, the latter persons vel age. The infant mortality was (i low, being only the rate g children born, less than halt 7 I rural England and Wales. The- mVpTA exceptionally ...

... 1896, the birth rate being 22. The of deaths was 175, as against 190 in the preceeding year; death rate 145. The rate of infant mortality was 90.6. other extreme of life 59 were aver 70 years of age. and of these 25 exceeded 86 and four 90 years. The number ...

... and fairly I satisfactory. The statistics connected with infant life, however,, were not improving. North Devon almost a purely agabealtural district, and- ought to show a 1ow«e infant mortality and! better birth-rase —in neither particular is there any ...

... that for the 143 towns in which Exeter is included. The infant mortality rate 101.3, as compared with 126.6 in the previous year, and 109 for England and Wales. The decrease in infant mortality in Exeter during the past eight years is 40.3 per 1,000 births ...

... military honcurs. The infant mortality of is high, OTncg to the too early exposure of new-born children. It not unusual to see a week-old baby strapped on the back of child aboat eight, and sent oat to be jambled about its infant nurse plays and romps ...

... Peze, by stabbing him in Barking-road n the 3rd inst. Accused denied the charge. According to Health, the increasing infant mortality at Liverpool has led the Corporation to lay down plant capable of sterilising 12,000 bottles of humanised milk per day—a ...

... 1895, birth rate bring 82. The number of deaths was 175, against 190 in the proceeding Jrar ; death rate 5. The rate ot infant mortality was 90.6. At the other extreme of life S0 were over years of age. and of these exceeded 80 and four 90 years. The number ...