... as against 2,034 last year—an increase in 1895 of 437 Councillor E. Beavan called attention to the large proportion of infant mortality in the past quarter and asked if any explanationcould be given The Chairman said Dr. Walford (medical officer of health) ...

... sub-district has an acreage of 16.928, and an estimated population of 6,680. The birth- rate was 30 23 per thousand, the infant mortality being greater than in either of the other districts. The death-rate of the parish of Pembrev, a. portion of the district ...

... wholesale baby-farming, practised by even the well-to-do married coup!as, and still more by the poor, and the extensive infant mortality. The Empress Frederick has ordered four silk dresses for the Princess Victoria's trousseau iu Athens. The silk dresses ...

... 22'2 Wol- verhamptOD, 233 Liverpool, 27*1 Preston, 264 and Newca?'!e, 21'0. INFANT MORTALITY. The rate of infant mortality as measured by the proportiou of deaths of infants under one year to 1,000 births registered was 171, as compared ...

... y V In Swansea the infant mortality to quarter was 79 per 1,000 births lower t in Cardiff,' and was only 127, as compjix^ with 105 in the previous quarter and 155 in third quarter of last year while in the 33 to the infant mortality last qua>rter averaged ...

... reported that during the four weeks ending Sept. 2nd the death rate was 28 0 per 1,000. This high rate was caused by the infant mortality and deaths among young children. Out of 342 deaths 192 were of children under one year of age. Diarrhoea was the most ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. TO THE EDITOK. Sir,—The remarks of Man About Town last week in the South IT ales Echo on this painful subject bring to our notice once more a serious problem which none of the existing authorities seems able or willing to solve. Following ...

... THE BABY FARMER.. A fertile cause of infant mortality, and of long, protracted suffering is due to the system known as baby-farming, the sufferers being unwanted children, those of poor parents, but perhaps oitencst those who are illegitimate, of which ...

... mothers at times of vaccina- tion, &c.-The Rev. Mr Spurgeon pointed out that this bad been done because of the large infant mortality in the town and district. He therefore moved that the leaflets be distributed.— Councillor F. J. Bevan seconded.—The ...

... quarter of last year. The infant mortality in Swansea was 136 per 1,GOO births, and showed an increase of 17 over that in the preceding quarter, but was 85 lower than that in the September quarter of last year. The infant mortality last quarter in Cardiff ...

... medical officer deplore the HIGH INFANTILE MORTALITY, but it is consoling to that while of sverv 1,000 children born in 1895 in the county, 201 died before completing the tint; vear of IifV. the infant mortality rate for 1896 was 1807. An interesting paragraph ...

... HEALTH. By DR. ANDREW WILSON, F.R.S.E. INFANT MORTALITY. I have been reading a very sensible letter ad- dressed ro the editor of a medical journal by a medical ma i ou the high death rate which pre- vails %mong infa-nts in our great centres of popu- lation ...