... on of deaths according to age is the extra- ordinary mortality amongst infants. The deaths under one year of age numbered 3,141, and were in the propor- tion of 198 per 1,000 births. No such infant death-rate I as this has been recorded in Birmingham ...

... bi` in the areas in cuestion it was 40.7 per 1,000. Garden Row had Ia population of 407, a death-rate of 4a2, .and at infant mortality of 55.5 per cent., while the figures for Roby Street were 218, 2o.5, and 531 per cent.; Honduras Street, 217, 40.5. nd ...

... of these e children were infants under one year old, which was 8 per 1,000, so that the infantile mortality was now 10I per cent., greater than the deaths from all other ages. The least fruitful causes of this high mortality were due t. to irriproper ...

... medical men at Glasgow, regarding the peculiar malady which affects the newly-born infants of the place. The malady has now become so prevalent and the rate of child mortality so high that the natives have becon.se alarmed, and save urged M-r. Fiddes to visit ...

... 1886, when the figures were 23-06. The death-rate was 11-31, as compared with 10178 in 1889. The percentage of deaths of infants under one year to tstal deaths was 19'6, and under five years 31-3. 39-2 per cent of deaths registered were of persons 60 ...