... INFANT MORTALITY. DEPUTATION TO MR. ASQUITH. Replying to deputation from the Parliamentary Committee of the British Medical Association to-day, Mr. Asquith said that though riecplv regretted the great increase in large towns of infant mortality, the ...

... serious a mortality among infants. In Coseley, about where the infant death-rate is higher than usual, Mr. Cleudinnen i says: -The cause, I fear, is to be found in the gross ignorance of the working classes in regard to the feeding of infants. It would ...

... workhouse. He thought something was radically wrong with regard to the HIGH RATE OF INFANT MORTALITY, no less than one-fourth the deaths in the borough being among infants under 12 months of age. With respect to insanitary dwellings, many of the houses in ...

... question of infant mortality was one of the highest importance, and Dr. Reid was only discharging his duty when he insctitsted an enquiry into it. Speaking as one of a deputation to the Home Secretary the ocher day, lDr. Reid stated that the infant ] vorcalisy ...

... was aareed ?? tos the question of infant mortality, the Chairrm an said from what he learnt wliten a tnember of the Itursle:n 6anirary Authority, he was toned to a~ree with Dr. Peid t at there was far too much infant mortabty in the district, and he thought ...

... the infant mortality did not arise from child insurance. They looked into the matter some little time ago, and found that very few indeed of the children who died so young were insured.—Councillor Wright said, with the exception of infant mortality, the ...

... so did the 'death rate, the average foi the past f-n \eirs being 14 7, and the zymotic death rate 1 7. * The rate of infant mortality for the year was slightly above the average, but that was due to an epidemic cf measles. the whole, however, the general ...

... which loved to linger over the embellishment of the roof. Deploring the great amount of infant mortality, be said What do you say A certain amount of infant mortality is unavoidable. The percentage on population of this magnitude is so and so. Ours is not ...

... rate of infant mortality is very slightly above it. He reports that not single death was recorded either from scarlatina or measles. Stbatfobd-ok-Avok.—Dr Thomson reports improved death and zymotic rates, and a lower rate of infant mortality than tbe ...

... diseases of *95 per 1.000 of the population. The general death rate and the death rate from zymotic disease and the rate of infant mortality were below the average of previous years, and in all respects the gcneriu health had continued very satisfactory. During ...

... birthrate appeared to be the rate of 23 8 per 1,000, and the death-rate 13 4. There had been little zymotic disease, and the infant mortality was low.—The Highways and Sanitary Committee reported that arrangement bad been come with Lord Clarendon's agent concerning ...

... the general death-rate and the death-rate from zymotic disease are both somewhat above the average, while the rate of infant mortality exceptionally low. The almost entire absence of typhoid continued fever —there only having been such cases notified during ...