... registered was 249, equal to death-rate of 14.40. again>t 11.35 in 1903. The death-rate for the kingdom was 15.3. The infant mortality wa* 103.53. being much higher than for the pa?,t three years. There had been no small-pox during the year, but 31 cases ...

... classifying the ages at which death occurred, deaths were Infants under one year of age. giving the rate of infant mortality as 6315 per thousand births. This was a low rate of infant mortality. Of the rest. 10 deaths were of children ...

... Barnstaple, read an instructive paper on Infant Mortality and its Prevention. The causes of infant mortality put down to the employment married women, maternal ignorance, general principles of the Tearing of infants, defective housing, ...

... is evidence of the amount of sickness occurring children this age. One death occurred amongst the illegitimate infants. The infant mortality for the rural population of -England and Wales for 1909 was per 1.000. Unly two deaths occurred from zymotic disease ...

... 190, and giving a birth-rate of 18.30 per 1,000 of the population. The number of deaths under one year was 13, giving infant mortality of 68.42. The zymotic deathrate was nil. The death-rate the smallest recorded, the nearest being 13 in 1896, and eminently ...

... 34 infant deaths registered. This is equivalent to an infant mortality rate 111 per 1,000 births. The rate for the previous ten years was 100.2 per 1,000 births, and that of England and Wales for 1904 was 110 per 1,000 births. The infant ...

... directions as to the proper feeding of babies. Mr. Duncan added that if parents generally would follow the advice given infant mortality would be considerably reduced. ...

... average number of deaths of infants, who only lived lew hours, owing to premature birth. The general death rate, however, was satisfactorily, low. There were 17 deaths of infants under one year, giving rate of infant mortality 8 per 1,000 births. This was ...

... Council on Monday. It was very favourable. It stated:—Deaths numbered 165 (15.89 per 1,000), births 200 (19.26 per 1,000), infant mortality 115 per 1,000 births. The zymotic death-rate showed a marked improvement—l.34, against 2.81 the previous year. Very few ...

... ot Sir Robert Newman. Bart., and there was* representative attendance. Papers were read by Dr. Harper; (Barnstaple) Infant Mortality and its Prevention,' and by Lady St. Aldwyn on District Nursing. . . , Lady Fortescue, moving the annual report said ...

... was now 14.34, including non-residents. This was a record. The births during the year were 103 males and 103 females; infant mortality: 27 deaths under one year, giving a rate 131 per 1,000. The zymotic deach-rate was .22. There had been instance of o ...

... per thousand, the rate for the previous ten years being 14.3, and that for rural England and Wales for 1902, 15.3. The infant mortality was high, being 11.1 per 1,000 births. During the year there had been a case of small-pox at Ashill, under circumstances ...