... period The zymotic phthisis and infant rates were also below the average In respect of infant mortality Medical Officer points out difference in the rate in some districts as compared with others is little less than startling cannot possibly set down ...

... band of lady helpers to encourage the natural feeding of infants, and their expericnce has sufficiently proved that this is the thing most worth working for in the prevention of infant mortality. It is intended to encourage mothers and girls to attend ...

... RAINFORD In 1965 the infant mortality was the highest ever recorded for the distriet, while for the year under report it is the lowest. The general death-rate also declined considerably, and with the excepion of 1903, it 113 the most favourable since ...

... faney, for it is certain that he is indifferent where the great majority are keen. I have tried him with Holman Hunt and Infant Mortality, with the Cyanide Process and *“ Tristan und Isclde,” with Foreign Missions, and Intensive Culture—all to no purpoze ...

... and feeding of infants than to SUPPZ them with millt aiready prepared fof “sit There is some truth in this, for though ts must be admitted that infants’ milk chf’ng have done a great deal towards redicg the death-rate amongst infants, hefliho nothing ...

... from the seven principal zymotic diseases 0.66, and that of infants under one vear of age 115 per thousand. The Medieal Officer expresses the opinion that in order to reduce infant mortality there should be supervision not only over the baby but over ...

... after year, and that so little should be done to check the wanton waste of life. “The causes leading to an excessive infant mortality,” remarks the medical officer, “are to a large extent remediable, and authorities ought to regard a rate exceeding a ...

... death-rate '35 per 1000 while the average of the previous ten years is '89 The infant mortality greit of the 79 deaths being of children under one of age infant mortality rate 149 deaths per 1000 births which is largely in excess of 99'2 for 1898 still ...

... made the rates lower or higher than they really wsre The rates the dis-tiict under-estima'ed with the excep-ticn the infant mortality rat' I have of ascertaining the health of the district before 1885 which year the six rural sanitary districts were formed ...

... death-rate IT)-12 Hero tho birth-rate was higher than it is at present the mortality late In the following year t e dropped to 2371 and latter to 13“29 while infant mortality rate fallen from 158 per thousand births to 118 The correlation continues in ...

... two of which Mea-les : Eighty - throe else- cams this cases under fatally sure that lamenting tire of lias zymotic and infant mortality rates you 'will congratulate yourselves increase due over little control measles diphtheria typhoid fever Erysipelas ...

... have been taking measures to lessen the waste of infant life, but unfortunately (says the Manchester Guardian) a further examination of the figures does not support this. The decline in infant mortality 18 due 1o the fact that there has been practically ...